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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTransmissible mink encepholapathy (TME) is a food-borne transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of ranch-raised mink; infection with a ruminant TSE has been proposed as the cause, but the precise origin of TME is...
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From:Alzheimer's Research & Therapy (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that occurs in association with repetitive traumatic brain injury experienced in sport and military service. In most instances, the...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground To provide information on dose-response and aid in modelling the exposure dynamics of the BSE epidemic in the United Kingdom groups of cattle were exposed orally to a range of different doses of brainstem...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Justin J. Greenlee 1 , * , Jodi D. Smith 1 , M. Heather West Greenlee 2 , Eric M. Nicholson 1 Introduction Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are fatal neurodegenerative...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed
Transcriptional Analysis Implicates Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal, transmissible, neurodegenerative disease of cattle. To date, the disease process is still poorly understood. In this study, brain tissue samples from animals naturally... -
From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe amyloidotic form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) termed BASE is caused by a prion strain whose biological properties differ from those of typical BSE, resulting in a clinically and pathologically distinct...
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From:Alzheimer's Research & Therapy (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegeneration associated with repetitive head impacts. Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) is a U01 project...
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From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSensational media attention continues to surround the subject of traumatic brain injury (TBI) more generally, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) more specifically. A recent round of media attention was sparked...
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From:Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (Vol. 69, Issue 11)Byline: Bushra Majid, Zainab Majid and Faryal Tahir Dear Madam, Bennet Omalu's famous autopsy on National Football League (NFL) player Mike Webster, opened doors to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). 1 Initially...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 14, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe route of transmission of most naturally acquired transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) infections remains speculative. To investigate urine as a potential source of TSE exposure, we used a sensitive method...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedHow susceptible pigs are to infection with sheep prions is unknown. We show, through transmission experiments in transgenic mice expressing porcine prion protein (PrP), that the susceptibility of this mouse model to...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 17, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and BSE-related disorders have been associated with a single major prion strain. Recently, 2 atypical, presumably sporadic forms of BSE have been associated with 2 distinct prion...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 3, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of cattle. Classical BSE is associated with ingestion of BSE-contaminated feedstuffs. H- and L-type BSE,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedObesity has become one of the largest public health challenges worldwide. Recently, certain bacterial and viral pathogens have been implicated in the pathogenesis of obesity. In the present study, we retrospectively...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPrions are largely contained within the nervous and lymphoid tissue of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) infected animals. However, following advances in diagnostic sensitivity, PrP.sup.Sc, a marker for...
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From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 36, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedChronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) occurs as a result of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a progressive neurodegenerative pathology. CTE was first identified as "punch drunk" syndrome by Martland in...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with head trauma. Although initially believed to affect only boxers, the at-risk population has expanded to encompass a much wider...
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From:Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Maria. Grande, Ana. Constantino, Juan. Rayo, Justo. Serrano, Jose. Infante, Lucia. Garcia, Carmen. Duran We present a 17-year-old female, previously diagnosed of autoimmune hyperthyroidism who had an acute...
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From:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: S. Payabvash, A. McKinney, D. Nascene, Z. Cayci In this paper, we present a patient of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), following liver transplantation, that showed evidence of chronic...
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From:Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Radheshyam. Purkait, Aritra. Mukherji, Sucharita. Datta, Ramchandra. Bhadra A 9-year-old girl, diagnosed case of Fanconi anemia, presented with generalized convulsion with altered sensorium. She had fever,...