Feb. 19, 2003 -- Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been identified in olfactory cilia and epithelium, according to a report in the Feb. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The ...
CSF Assay Moderately Accurate for Diagnosing Sporadic CJD For individuals with suspected sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) 14-3-3 protein assay is a useful ...
People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared ...
PRION RESEARCH | New Lead for Sporadic CJD Cause A recent murine study suggests that the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) might be caused by meat infected with bovine spongiform ...
Fears are growing that a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD – the human form of BSE or mad cow disease) could have spread to humans. The concern has arisen following a sharp upturn in the ...
National Institutes of Health scientists have used human skin cells to create what they believe is the first cerebral organoid system, or "mini-brain," for studying sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain of a patient with CJD. | Credit: Pract Neurol ...
Human prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the accumulation of an abnormal protease-resistant isoform of the prion protein PrP Sc (Prusiner 1996). The prion-like protein ...
The diagnosis of VV1 sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD) is extremely difficult, as this very rare subtype of sCJD shares many clinical characteristics with variant CJD (vCJD). Between 1993 and ...
CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...
August 24, 2010 — A novel sporadic prion protein disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), with distinct features has been described as the first new prion disease since sporadic ...