Prions Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Prions, including details on mad cow disease, scrapie, cjd.

Volume 1 (2005), Issue 1 (January)

1. Fatal familial insomnia with an unusual prion protein deposition pattern: an autopsy report with an experimental transmission study.
   Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol, 31(1): 80-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Mitochondrial localization of cellular prion protein (PrPC) invokes neuronal apoptosis in aged transgenic mice overexpressing PrPC.
   Neurosci Lett, 374(2): 98-103. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Efficient inhibition of prion replication by PrP-Fc(2) suggests that the prion is a PrP(Sc) oligomer.
   J Mol Biol, 345(5): 1243-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Neuroinvasion by scrapie following inoculation via the skin is independent of migratory Langerhans cells.
   J Virol, 79(3): 1888-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Prion protein with Y145STOP mutation induces mitochondria-mediated apoptosis and PrP-containing deposits in vitro.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 327(3): 894-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Extracellular copper ions regulate cellular prion protein (PrPC) expression and metabolism in neuronal cells.
   FEBS Lett, 579(3): 741-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Pre-symptomatic detection of prions by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding.
   FEBS Lett, 579(3): 638-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. An unusual soluble beta-turn-rich conformation of prion is involved in fibril formation and toxic to neuronal cells.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 328(1): 292-305. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. PrP cooperates with STI1 to regulate SOD activity in PrP-deficient neuronal cell line.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 328(1): 14-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. In vitro conversion of full-length mammalian prion protein produces amyloid form with physical properties of PrP(Sc).
    J Mol Biol, 346(2): 645-59. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. The cellular prion protein modulates phagocytosis and inflammatory response.
    J Leukoc Biol, 77(2): 238-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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