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Neuronal cell death in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases) revisited: from apoptosis to autophagy by Liberski, Pawel P., Sikorska, Beata, Bratosiewicz-Wasik, Jolanta, Carleton Gajdusek, D., Brown, Paul

“…Neuronal autophagy, like apoptosis, is one of the mechanisms of the programmed cell death (PCD). In this review, we summarize the presence of autophagic…”
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Infectivity Studies of Both Ash and Air Emissions from Simulated Incineration of Scrapie- Contaminated Tissues by Brown, Paul, Rau, Edward H, Lemieux, Paul, Johnson, Bruce K, Bacote, Alfred E, Gajdusek, D. Carleton

“…We investigated the effectiveness of 15 min exposures to 600 and 1000 °C in continuous flow normal and starved-air incineration-like conditions to inactivate…”
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Kuru and its contribution to medicine by Gajdusek, D. Carleton

“…The solution of kuru led us to the solution of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and to the elucidation, in humans and other species, of previously unknown mechanisms…”
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Family clustering of Viliuisk encephalomyelitis in traditional and new geographic regions by Vladimirtsev, Vsevolod A, Nikitina, Raisa S, Renwick, Neil, Ivanova, Anastasia A, Danilova, Al'bina P, Platonov, Fyodor A, Krivoshapkin, Vadim G, McLean, Catriona A, Masters, Colin L, Gajdusek, D Carleton, Goldfarb, Lev G

“…Viliuisk encephalomyelitis is an acute, often fatal, meningoencephalitis that tends to develop into a prolonged chronically progressive panencephalitis…”
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Review. Kuru and its contribution to medicine by Gajdusek, D Carleton

“…The solution of kuru led us to the solution of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and to the elucidation, in humans and other species, of previously unknown mechanisms…”
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Characterization and Chromosomal Localization of a cDNA Encoding Brain Amyloid of Alzheimer's Disease by Goldgaber, Dmitry, Lerman, Michael I., McBride, O. Wesley, Saffiotti, Umberto, Gajdusek, D. Carleton

“…Four clones were isolated from an adult human brain complementary DNA library with an oligonucleotide probe corresponding to the first 20 amino acids of the…”
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A proposal for new criteria for the classification of hantaviruses, based on S and M segment protein sequences by Maes, Piet, Klempa, Boris, Clement, Jan, Matthijnssens, Jelle, Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Krüger, Detlev H., Van Ranst, Marc

“…Hantaviruses, members of the family Bunyaviridae, are the causative agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome…”
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Early images of kuru and the people of Okapa by Gajdusek, D.Carleton

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The new biology of spongiform encephalopathy: infectious amyloidoses with a genetic twist by Brown, P, Goldfarb, L G, Gajdusek, D C

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Distinct Pathological Features of the Gallyas- and Tau-positive Glia in the Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis of Guam by OYANAGI, KIYOMITSU, MAKIFUCHI, TAKAO, OHTOH, TAKASHI, CHEN, KWANG-MING, GAJDUSEK, D CARLETON, CHASE, THOMAS N

“…We examined 50 patients with parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (Guam PDC). 10 Guamanian patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 5 patients with…”
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HTLV-III Infection in Brains of Children and Adults with AIDS Encephalopathy by Shaw, George M., Harper, Mary E., Hahn, Beatrice H., Epstein, Leon G., Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Price, Richard W., Navia, Bradford A., Petito, Carol K., O'Hara, Carl J., Groopman, Jerome E., Cho, Eun-Sook, Oleske, James M., Wong-Staal, Flossie, Gallo, Robert C.

“…Unexplained debilitating dementia or encephalopathy occurs frequently in adults and children with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Brains from…”
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Highly Divergent Molecular Variants of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type I from Isolated Populations in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands by GESSAIN, A, YANAGIHARA, R, FRANCHINI, G, GARRUTO, R. M, JENKINS, C. L, ADJUKIEWICZ, A. B, GALLO, R. C, CARLETON GAJDUSEK, D

“…To determine the molecular genetic relationship between Melanesian strains of human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and cosmopolitan prototype HTLV-I, we…”
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Natural and Experimental Oral Infection of Nonhuman Primates by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents by Bons, Nöelle, Mestre-Frances, Nadine, Belli, Patrick, Cathala, Françoise, Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Brown, Paul

“…Experimental lemurs either were infected orally with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or were maintained as unifected control animals…”
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New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent: Threshold survival after ashing at 600°C suggests an inorganic template of replication by Brown, P.

“…One-gram samples from a pool of crude brain tissue from hamsters infected with the 263K strain of hamster-adapted scrapie agent were placed in covered…”
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Human spongiform encephalopathy: the National Institutes of Health series of 300 cases of experimentally transmitted disease by Brown, P, Gibbs, Jr, C J, Rodgers-Johnson, P, Asher, D M, Sulima, M P, Bacote, A, Goldfarb, L G, Gajdusek, D C

“…We present a synthesis of clinical, neuropathological, and biological details of the National Institutes of Health series of 300 experimentally transmitted…”
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Increased Susceptibility to Kuru of Carriers of the PRNP 129 Methionine/Methionine Genotype by Lee, Hee-Suk, Brown, Paul, Cervenáková, Larisa, Garruto, Ralph M., Alpers, Michael P., Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Goldfarb, Lev G.

“…Kuru reached epidemic proportions by the mid-twentieth century among the Fore people of New Guinea and disappeared after the abolition of cannibalistic…”
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Different Patterns of Truncated Prion Protein Fragments Correlate with Distinct Phenotypes in P102L Gerstmann--Straussler--Scheinker Disease by Parchi, Piero, Chen, Shu G., Brown, Paul, Zou, Wenquan, Capellari, Sabina, Budka, Herbert, Hainfellner, Johannes, Reyes, Patricio F., Golden, Gregory T., Hauw, Jean J., Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Gambetti, Pierluigi

“…The clinicopathological phenotype of the Gerstmann--Straussler--Scheinker disease (GSS) variant linked to the codon 102 mutation in the prion protein (PrP)…”
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Belgrade Virus: A New Hantavirus Causing Severe Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Yugoslavia by Gligic, Ana, Dimkovic, Nada, Xiao, Shu-Yuan, Buckle, Guy J., Jovanovic, Dragan, Velimirovic, Dragisa, Stojanovic, Radivoj, Obradovic, Mirceta, Diglisic, Gordana, Micic, Jasmina, Asher, David M., LeDuc, James W., Yanagihara, Richard, Carleton Gajdusek, D.

“…Two biologically and genetically distinct hantaviruses were isolated from blood and urine specimens collected from four Yugoslavian patients with clinically…”
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Phenotype-Genotype Studies in Kuru: Implications for New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Cervenakova, Larisa, Goldfarb, Lev G., Garruto, Ralph, Lee, Hee-Suk, Gajdusek, D. Carleton, Brown, Paul

“…The PRNP polymorphic (methionine/valine) codon 129 genotype influences the phenotypic features of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. All tested cases of…”
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Genetic Analysis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Related Disorders by Goldfarb, Lev G., Brown, Paul, Cervenakova, Larisa, Gajdusek, D. Carleton

“…Genetic studies of over 200 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru…”
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