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 3 (2007), Issue 11 (November)

1. Prion protein regulates glutamate-dependent lactate transport of astrocytes.
   J Neurosci, 27(45): 12331-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. A general model of prion strains and their pathogenicity.
   Science, 318(5852): 930-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Electron crystallography of the scrapie prion protein complexed with heavy metals.
   Arch Biochem Biophys, 467(2): 239-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Orally administered amyloidophilic compound is effective in prolonging the incubation periods of animals cerebrally infected with prion diseases in a prion strain-dependent manner.
   J Virol, 81(23): 12889-98. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Silencing of prion protein sensitizes breast adriamycin-resistant carcinoma cells to TRAIL-mediated cell death.
   Cancer Res, 67(22): 10910-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. A novel phenotype of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
   J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 78(12): 1379-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Contribution of a putative salt bridge and backbone dynamics in the structural instability of human prion protein upon R208H mutation.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 364(4): 719-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Species barriers for chronic wasting disease by in vitro conversion of prion protein.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 364(4): 796-800. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Polymorphisms of the prion gene promoter region that influence classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy susceptibility are not applicable to other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in cattle.
   J Anim Sci, 85(12): 3142-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Neurotoxic species in prion disease: a role for PrP isoforms?
    J Neurochem, 103(5): 1709-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Reorganization of prion protein membrane environment during low potassium-induced apoptosis in primary rat cerebellar neurons.
    J Neurochem, 103(5): 1954-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Octapeptide repeat region of prion protein (PrP) is required at an early stage for production of abnormal prion protein in PrP-deficient neuronal cell line.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 365(1): 164-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. PrPC interacts with tetraspanin-7 through bovine PrP154-182 containing alpha-helix 1.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 365(1): 154-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Prion strain- and species-dependent effects of antiprion molecules in primary neuronal cultures.
    J Virol, 81(24): 13794-800. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Prion strain discrimination using luminescent conjugated polymers.
    Nat Methods, 4(12): 1023-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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