Search Results - "Haigh, Cathryn L."
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Altered energy metabolism in Fatal Familial Insomnia cerebral organoids is associated with astrogliosis and neuronal dysfunction
Published in PLoS genetics (19-01-2023)“…Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a rare neurodegenerative disease caused by a dominantly inherited single amino acid substitution (D178N) within the prion…”
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Prion propagation and cellular dysfunction in prion disease: Disconnecting the dots
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Sodium hypochlorite inactivation of human CJD prions
Published in PloS one (07-11-2024)“…Prion diseases are transmissible, fatal neurologic diseases of mammals caused by the accumulation of mis-folded, disease associated prion protein (PrPd)…”
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Human cerebral organoids as a therapeutic drug screening model for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Published in Scientific reports (09-03-2021)“…Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD) is a fatal, currently incurable, neurodegenerative disease. The search for candidate treatments would be greatly facilitated by…”
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Lack of Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions to Human Cerebral Organoids
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-06-2024)“…Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential that might pose a risk to humans who are exposed. To assess the…”
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Cerebral organoids as a new model for prion disease
Published in PLoS pathogens (21-07-2021)“…Human brain has proven difficult to model, and this tissue is not widely available for study. [...]the application of organoid technology to produce 3D…”
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Stress and viral insults do not trigger E200K PrP conversion in human cerebral organoids
Published in PloS one (27-10-2022)“…Prion diseases are a group of rare, transmissible, and invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases that affect both humans and animals. The cause of these…”
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prion infection of human cerebral organoids
Published in Acta neuropathologica communications (14-06-2019)“…For the transmissible, neurogenerative family of prion diseases, few human models of infection exist and none represent structured neuronal tissue. Human…”
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α-Synuclein seeding activity in duodenum biopsies from Parkinson's disease patients
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-06-2023)“…Abnormal deposition of α-synuclein is a key feature and biomarker of Parkinson's disease. α-Synuclein aggregates can propagate themselves by a prion-like…”
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Hereditary E200K mutation within the prion protein gene alters human iPSC derived cardiomyocyte function
Published in Scientific reports (22-09-2022)“…Cardiomyopathy is a co-morbidity of some prion diseases including genetic disease caused by mutations within the PrP gene ( PRNP ). Although the cellular prion…”
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Reduced SOD2 expression does not influence prion disease course or pathology in mice
Published in PloS one (04-11-2021)“…Prion diseases are progressive, neurodegenerative diseases affecting humans and animals. Also known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, for the…”
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Neuronal maturation reduces the type I IFN response to orthobunyavirus infection and leads to increased apoptosis of human neurons
Published in Journal of neuroinflammation (18-11-2019)“…La Crosse virus (LACV) is the leading cause of pediatric arboviral encephalitis in the USA. LACV encephalitis can result in learning and memory deficits, which…”
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Neuronal excitatory-to-inhibitory balance is altered in cerebral organoid models of genetic neurological diseases
Published in Molecular brain (11-10-2021)“…The neuro-physiological properties of individuals with genetic pre-disposition to neurological disorders are largely unknown. Here we aimed to explore these…”
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The Prion Protein N1 and N2 Cleavage Fragments Bind to Phosphatidylserine and Phosphatidic Acid; Relevance to Stress-Protection Responses
Published in PloS one (07-08-2015)“…Internal cleavage of the cellular prion protein generates two well characterised N-terminal fragments, N1 and N2. These fragments have been shown to bind to…”
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Neural cell engraftment therapy for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease restores neuroelectrophysiological parameters in a cerebral organoid model
Published in Stem cell research & therapy (05-12-2023)“…Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the most common human prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with currently no treatment options. Stem…”
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Using our mini-brains: cerebral organoids as an improved cellular model for human prion disease
Published in Neural regeneration research (01-06-2020)“…The most common form of human prion disease is sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), occurring in 1–2 people per million per year. Progression of prion…”
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Temporary alteration of neuronal network communication is a protective response to redox imbalance that requires GPI-anchored prion protein
Published in Redox biology (01-07-2023)“…Cellular prion protein (PrPC) protects neurons against oxidative stress damage. This role is lost upon its misfolding into insoluble prions in prion diseases,…”
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease infected human cerebral organoids retain the original human brain subtype features following transmission to humanized transgenic mice
Published in Acta neuropathologica communications (14-02-2023)“…Human cerebral organoids (COs) are three-dimensional self-organizing cultures of cerebral brain tissue differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells. We…”
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Neutron Reflectometry Studies Define Prion Protein N-terminal Peptide Membrane Binding
Published in Biophysical journal (18-11-2014)“…The prion protein (PrP), widely recognized to misfold into the causative agent of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, has previously been shown to…”
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Pathogenic Prion Protein Isoforms Are Not Present in Cerebral Organoids Generated from Asymptomatic Donors Carrying the E200K Mutation Associated with Familial Prion Disease
Published in Pathogens (Basel) (18-06-2020)“…Cerebral organoids (COs) are a self-organizing three-dimensional brain tissue mimicking the human cerebral cortex. COs are a promising new system for modelling…”
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