Search Results - "Fernández Borges, Natalia"
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YKL-40 in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of neurodegenerative dementias
Published in Molecular neurodegeneration (10-11-2017)“…YKL-40 (also known as Chitinase 3-like 1) is a glycoprotein produced by inflammatory, cancer and stem cells. Its physiological role is not completely…”
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Prion-Associated Neurodegeneration Causes Both Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Proteasome Impairment in a Murine Model of Spontaneous Disease
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (05-01-2021)“…Prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders that can be spontaneous, familial or acquired by infection. The conversion of the prion protein PrP…”
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A molecular switch controls interspecies prion disease transmission in mice
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-07-2010)“…Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are lethal neurodegenerative disorders that present with aggregated forms of the cellular prion protein (PrPC), which…”
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Regional and subtype-dependent miRNA signatures in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are accompanied by alterations in miRNA silencing machinery and biogenesis
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-01-2018)“…Increasing evidence indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) are contributing factors to neurodegeneration. Alterations in miRNA signatures have been reported in…”
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Cofactors influence the biological properties of infectious recombinant prions
Published in Acta neuropathologica (01-02-2018)“…Prion diseases are caused by a misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrP) to a pathogenic isoform named PrP Sc . Prions exist as strains, which are…”
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Prion replication without host adaptation during interspecies transmissions
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-01-2017)“…Adaptation of prions to new species is thought to reflect the capacity of the host-encoded cellular form of the prion protein (PrPC) to selectively propagate…”
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Transgenic fatal familial insomnia mice indicate prion infectivity-independent mechanisms of pathogenesis and phenotypic expression of disease
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-04-2015)“…Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and a genetic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD178) are clinically different prion disorders linked to the D178N prion…”
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Rabbits are not resistant to prion infection
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-03-2012)“…The ability of prions to infect some species and not others is determined by the transmission barrier. This unexplained phenomenon has led to the belief that…”
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Prionemia and Leukocyte-Platelet-Associated Infectivity in Sheep Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Models
Published in Journal of Virology (01-02-2012)“…Article Usage Stats Services JVI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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An assessment of the long-term persistence of prion infectivity in aquatic environments
Published in Environmental research (01-11-2016)“…The environment plays a key role in horizontal transmission of prion diseases, since prions are extremely resistant to classical inactivation procedures. In…”
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Recent advances in the development of recombinant vaccines against classical swine fever virus: Cellular responses also play a role in protection
Published in The veterinary journal (1997) (01-08-2008)“…Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is the causative agent of one of the most devastating porcine haemorrhagic viral diseases, classical swine fever (CSF). CSFV…”
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Animal models for testing anti-prion drugs
Published in Current topics in medicinal chemistry (01-10-2013)“…Prion diseases belong to a group of fatal infectious diseases with no effective therapies available. Throughout the last 35 years, less than 50 different drugs…”
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Infectivity versus Seeding in Neurodegenerative Diseases Sharing a Prion-Like Mechanism
Published in International Journal of Cell Biology (2013)“…Prions are considered the best example to prove that the biological information can be transferred protein to protein through a conformational change. The term…”
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In vitro studies of the transmission barrier
Published in Prion (01-10-2009)“…Protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) has proved to be an efficient method mimicking in vitro some of the fundamental steps involved in prion…”
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Dogs are resistant to prion infection, due to the presence of aspartic or glutamic acid at position 163 of their prion protein
Published in The FASEB journal (01-03-2020)“…Unlike other species, prion disease has never been described in dogs even though they were similarly exposed to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)…”
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Unraveling the key to the resistance of canids to prion diseases
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-11-2017)“…One of the characteristics of prions is their ability to infect some species but not others and prion resistant species have been of special interest because…”
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Protective Effect of Val129-PrP against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy but not Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-09-2017)“…Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is the only known zoonotic prion that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans. The major risk…”
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Structure of the β2‐α2 loop and interspecies prion transmission
Published in The FASEB journal (01-07-2012)“…ABSTRACT Prions are misfolded, aggregated conformers of the prion protein that can be transmitted between species. The precise determinants of interspecies…”
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Canine D163-PrP polymorphic variant does not provide complete protection against prion infection in small ruminant PrP context
Published in Scientific reports (12-07-2021)“…E/D 163 polymorphism of dog prion protein (PrP) has been recently proposed as the variant responsible for canid prion resistance. To further investigate the…”
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Classical BSE dismissed as the cause of CWD in Norwegian red deer despite strain similarities between both prion agents
Published in Veterinary research (Paris) (15-05-2024)“…The first case of CWD in a Norwegian red deer was detected by a routine ELISA test and confirmed by western blotting and immunohistochemistry in the brain stem…”
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