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 6 (June)

1. Prions as adaptive conduits of memory and inheritance.
   Nat Rev Genet, 6(6): 435-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Theoretical model of prion propagation: a misfolded protein induces misfolding.
   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102(22): 7835-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Anchorless prion protein results in infectious amyloid disease without clinical scrapie.
   Science, 308(5727): 1435-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Activation of the JNK-c-Jun pathway during the early phase of neuronal apoptosis induced by PrP106-126 and prion infection.
   Eur J Neurosci, 21(9): 2311-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. The prion protein and its paralogue Doppel affect calcium signaling in Chinese hamster ovary cells.
   Mol Biol Cell, 16(6): 2799-808. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Hypoglycemia enhances the expression of prion protein and heat-shock protein 70 in a mouse neuroblastoma cell line.
   J Neurosci Res, 80(6): 887-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. TSE clearance during plasma products separation process by Gradiflow(TM).
   Biologicals, 33(2): 87-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Correlation of structural elements and infectivity of the HET-s prion.
   Nature, 435(7043): 844-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Structure of the cross-beta spine of amyloid-like fibrils.
   Nature, 435(7043): 773-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Structural insights into a yeast prion illuminate nucleation and strain diversity.
    Nature, 435(7043): 765-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Using genotype probabilities in survival analysis: a scrapie case.
    Genet Sel Evol, 37(4): 403-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the prion protein gene (PRNP) in Chinese pig breeds.
    Xenotransplantation, 12(4): 324-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Genetic risk factors associated with Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in Slovenians and a rapid typing for PRNP codon 129 single nucleotide polymorphism.
    Transfus Med, 15(3): 197-207. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Application of a synthetic phage antibody library (ETH-2) for the isolation of single chain fragment variable (scFv) human antibodies to the pathogenic isoform of the hamster prion protein (HaPrPsc).
    Hybridoma (Larchmt), 24(3): 127-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The expression of prion protein (PrP(C)) in the megakaryocyte lineage.
    J Thromb Haemost, 3(6): 1266-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Amidation and structure relaxation abolish the neurotoxicity of the prion peptide PrP106-126 in vivo and in vitro.
    J Biol Chem, 280(24): 23114-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Modulation of prion-dependent polyglutamine aggregation and toxicity by chaperone proteins in the yeast model.
    J Biol Chem, 280(24): 22809-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Copper reduction by the octapeptide repeat region of prion protein: pH dependence and implications in cellular copper uptake.
    Biochemistry, 44(24): 8712-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Paracrine inhibition of prion propagation by anti-PrP single-chain Fv miniantibodies.
    J Virol, 79(13): 8330-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Nitric oxide induces prion protein via MEK and p38 MAPK signaling.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 333(1): 95-100. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Cellular prion protein inhibits proapoptotic Bax conformational change in human neurons and in breast carcinoma MCF-7 cells.
    Cell Death Differ, 12(7): 783-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Molecular neurology of prion disease.
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 76(7): 906-19. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Detection of ultra-low levels of pathologic prion protein in scrapie infected hamster brain homogenates using real-time immuno-PCR.
    J Virol Methods, 127(2): 154-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Cell-autonomous PrP-Doppel interaction regulates apoptosis in PrP gene-deficient neuronal cells.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 333(2): 448-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Neuropathologic characteristics of brainstem lesions in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
    Acta Neuropathol (Berl), 109(6): 557-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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