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 9 (September)

1. In vitro and in vivo neurotoxicity of prion protein oligomers.
   PLoS Pathog, 3(8): e125. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Nonpsychoactive cannabidiol prevents prion accumulation and protects neurons against prion toxicity.
   J Neurosci, 27(36): 9537-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Discrimination of sheep susceptible and resistant to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies by an haplotype specific monoclonal antibody.
   J Virol Methods, 145(2): 169-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. A role for His155 in binding of human prion peptide144-167 to immobilised prion protein.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 362(3): 695-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Mechanistic insights into the cure of prion disease by novel antiprion compounds.
   J Virol, 81(19): 10729-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Prion protein expression differences in microglia and astroglia influence scrapie-induced neurodegeneration in the retina and brain of transgenic mice.
   J Virol, 81(19): 10340-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Molecular profiling of ovine prion diseases by using thermolysin-resistant PrPSc and endogenous C2 PrP fragments.
   J Virol, 81(19): 10532-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. PrPc does not mediate internalization of PrPSc but is required at an early stage for de novo prion infection of Rov cells.
   J Virol, 81(19): 10786-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Enzymatic detergent treatment protocol that reduces protease-resistant prion protein load and infectivity from surgical-steel monofilaments contaminated with a human-derived prion strain.
   J Gen Virol, 88: 2905-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Urinary excretion and blood level of prions in scrapie-infected hamsters.
    J Gen Virol, 88: 2890-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. The dominant-negative effect of the Q218K variant of the prion protein does not require protein X.
    Protein Sci, 16(10): 2166-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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