Feb. 19, 2003 -- Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been identified in olfactory cilia and epithelium, according to a report in the Feb. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The ...
PRION RESEARCH | New Lead for Sporadic CJD Cause A recent murine study suggests that the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) might be caused by meat infected with bovine spongiform ...
A rare and fatal brain disorder called sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be challenging to identify, with patients needing to undergo a number of tests before a diagnosis can be made. But a new ...
People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared ...
CSF Assay Moderately Accurate for Diagnosing Sporadic CJD For individuals with suspected sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) 14-3-3 protein assay is a useful ...
CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...
Human prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the accumulation of an abnormal protease-resistant isoform of the prion protein PrP Sc (Prusiner 1996). The prion-like protein ...
Fears are growing that a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD – the human form of BSE or mad cow disease) could have spread to humans. The concern has arisen following a sharp upturn in the ...
Health officials in New Hampshire said eight neurosurgery patients at one hospital in the state may have been unwittingly exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Surgical instruments used on a ...
National Institutes of Health scientists have used human skin cells to create what they believe is the first cerebral organoid system, or "mini-brain," for studying sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but fatal disease in humans. For the first time, the presence of infectivity in the blood of patients affected by sporadic and the new variant of CJD has been ...
A nasal brush test can rapidly and accurately diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an incurable and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder, according to a study. CJD is a prion disease.
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