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ArticleCureus2025

Prion Positivity Detected by Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC) in the Cadaver of an Elderly Woman Subjected to Forensic Autopsy.

Takehiro Nakagaki, Takahito Hayashi, Miho Kaneko, Akio Akagi, Bungo Furusato, Yasushi Iwasaki, Katsuya Satoh, Kazuya Ikematsu, Noriyuki Nishida

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Takehiro NakagakiDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JPN.
Takahito HayashiDepartment of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, JPN.
Miho KanekoDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JPN.
Akio AkagiDepartment of Neuropathology, Institute for Medical Science of Aging, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, JPN.
Bungo FurusatoClinical Genomics Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, JPN.
Yasushi IwasakiDepartment of Neuropathology, Institute for Medical Science of Aging, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, JPN.
Katsuya SatohDepartment of Health Sciences, Unit of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JPN.
Kazuya IkematsuDepartment of Forensic Pathology and Science, Unit of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JPN.
Noriyuki NishidaDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JPN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders. Previous studies have indicated the presence of "prion carriers" who remain asymptomatic, but scrapie prion protein (PrP

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abnormal prion proteinforensic autopsyprion diseasesrt-quicundiagnosed case

Identifiers

PMID40026946
PMCPMC11870783

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