List of Scientific Papers Supplied to SEAC Members by the Secretariat

12th May - 17th July 2000

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Paper by R Ridley and H Baker, 'Big decisions based on small numbers: lessons from BSE', published in the Veterinary Quarterly, 1999, volume 21, number 3, pages 86-92;

Paper by K Kaneko, H Ball, H Wille, H Zhang, D Groth, M Torchia, P Tremblay, J Safar, S Prusiner, S DeArmond, M Baldwin and F Cohen, 'A synthetic peptide initiates Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) disease in transgenic mice', published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, 2000, volume 295, pages 997-1007;

Report by H Allroggen, G Dennis, R Abbott and I Pye, 'New variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease: three case reports from Leicestershire', published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2000, volume 68, pages 375-378;

Paper by Joel S Hirschhorn, 'Mad cow and related diseases: challenges for waste management', published in Remediation, volume 9, number 4, pages 87-108;

Paper by C Donnelly, R Santos, M Ramos, A Galo and J Simas, 'BSE in Portugal: anticipating the decline of an epidemic', published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 1999, volume 4, number 4, pages 277-283;

Paper by Moira Bruce, ' 'New variant' Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy', published in Nature Medicine, 2000, volume 6, pages 258-259;

Paper by M Purdey, 'Ecosystems supporting clusters of sporadic TSEs demonstrate excesses of the radical-generating divalent cation manganese and deficiencies of antioxidant co factors Cu, Se, Fe, Zn', published in Medical Hypotheses, 2000, volume 54, number 2, pages 278-306;

Paper by E O'Doherty, M Aherne, S Ennis, E Weavers, N Hunter, J Roche and T Sweeney, 'Detection of polymorphisms in the prion protein gene in a population of Irish Suffolk sheep', published in the Veterinary Record, 2000, volume 146, pages 335-338;

Paper by P Brown, E Rau, B Johnson, A Bacote, C Gibbs Jr and D Gajdusek, 'New studies on the heat resistance of hamster adapted scrapie agent: Threshold survival after ashing at 600c suggests an inorganic template of replication', published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2000, volume 97, number 7, pages 3418-3421;

Paper by R Wang, M Myers, W Campbell, W Cao, D Paine and C Cerniglia, 'A rapid method for PCR detection of bovine materials in animal feedstuffs', published in Molecular and cellular probes, 2000, volume 14, pages 1-5;

Paper by B Wong, C Clive, S Haswell, I Jones and D Brown, 'Copper has different effect on prion protein with polymorphism of position 29', published in Biochemical and Biophysical research communications, 2000, volume 269, pages 726-731;

Paper by F Ruiz, E Silva and N Inestrosa, 'The N-terminal tandem repeat region of human prion protein reduces copper: role of tryptophan residues', published in Biochemical and Biophysical research communications, 2000, volume 269, pages 491-495;

Paper by J Durig, A Giese, W Schulz-Schaeffer, C Rosenthal, U Schmucker, J Bieschke, U Duhrsen and H Kretzschmar, 'Differential constitutive and activation-dependent expression of prion protein in human peripheral blood leucocytes', published in the British Journal of Haematology, 2000, volume 108, pages 488-496;

Paper by V Gayrard, N Picard-Hagen, M Grino, N Sauze, C Grandjean, J Galea, O Andreoletti, F Schelcher and P Toutain, 'Major hypercorticism is an endocrine feature of ewes with naturally occurring scrapie', published in Endocrinology, 2000, volume 141, number 3, pages 988-994;

Paper by D Brown, F Haziz, L Glasssmith, B Wong, I Jones, C Clive and S Haswell, 'Consequences of manganese replacement of copper for prion protein function and proteinase resistance', published in the European molecular biology organization journal, 2000, volume 19, number 6, pages 1180-1186;

Paper by P Foster, A Welch, C McLean, B Griffin, J Hardy, A Bartley, S MacDonald and A Bailey, 'Studies on the removal of abnormal prion protein by processes used in the manufacture of human plasma products', published in Vox Sanguinis, 2000, volume 78, pages 86-95;

Paper by D Walsh, V Perry and L Minghetti, 'Cyclooxygenase-2 is highly expressed in microglial-like cells in a murine model of prion disease', published in Glia, 2000, volume 29, pages 392-396

Paper by W Shyu, M Kao, W Chou, Y Hsu and B Soong, 'Heat shock modulates prion protein expression in human NT-2 cells', published in Neuroreport, 2000, volume 11, number 4, pages 771-774;

Abstract by A Aguzzi, A Raeber, S Brandner, R Frigg, I Hegyi, C Rockl, M Fisher, V Pekarik, G Huber, C Musahl, H Furukawa, M Glatzel, P Parizek and M Klein, 'Molecular pathology of prion diseases', published in the Journal of pathology, 2000, volume 190, page A65;
Paper by D Waggoner, B Drisaldi, T Bartnikas, R Casareno, J Prohaska, J Gitlin and D Harris, 'Brain copper content and cuproenzyme activity do not vary with prion protein expression level', published in the Journal of biological chemistry, 2000, volume 275, number 11, pages 7455-7458;

Paper by H Rudyk, S Vasiljrevic, R Hennion, C Birkett, J Hope and I Gilbert, 'Screening congo red and its analogues for their ability to prevent the formation of PrP-res in scrapie-infected cells', published in the Journal of General Virology, 2000, volume 81, pages 1155-1164;

Paper by V Beringue, M Demoy, C Lasmezas, B Gouritin, C Weingarten, J Deslys, J Andreux, P Couvreur and D Dormont, 'Role of spleen macrophages in the clearance of scrapie agent early in pathogenesis', published in the Journal of Pathology, 2000, volume 190, pages 495-502;

Abstract by Y Kim, J Choi, E Choi, J Jin, H Lee, N Zaidi, W Wasco, J Buxbaum and R Carp, 'Increased expression of calsenilin in the brains of scrapie infected mice', published in the Society for Neuroscience abstracts, 1999, volume 25, page 1853.

Paper by L Zulianello, K Kaneko, M Scott, S Erpel, D Han, F Cohen and S Prusiner, 'Dominant-negative inhibition of prion formation diminished by deletion mutagenesis of the prion protein', published in the Journal of Virology, 2000, volume 74, number 9, pages 4351-4360;

Paper by K Doh-Ura, T Iwaki and B Caughey, 'Lysosomotropic agents and cysteine protease inhibitors inhibit scrapie-associated prion protein accumulation', published in the Journal of Virology, 2000, volume 74, number 10, pages 4894-4897;

Paper by M Simmons, S Ryder, M Chaplin, Y Spencer, C Webb, L Hoinville, J Ryan, M Stack, G Wells and J Wilesmith, 'Scrapie surveillance in Great Britain: results of an abattoir survey, 1997/98', published in the Veterinary Record, 2000, volume 146, pages 391-395;

Paper by M Zeidler, R Sellar, D Collie, R Knight, G Stewart, M Macleod, J Ironside, S Cousens, A Colchester, D Hadley and R Will, 'The pulvinar sign on magnetic resonance imaging in variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease', published in the Lancet, 2000, volume 355, pages 1412-18;

Paper by J Ironside, D Hilton, A Ghani, N Johnston, L Conyers, L McCardle and D Best, 'Retrospective study of prion-protein accumulation in tonsil and appendix tissues', published in the Lancet, 2000, volume 355, pages 1693-1694;

Paper by S Colgan, N Shilton, K McDonnell and S Ward, 'Production of single species derived meat and bone meal-the development of laboratory-scale rendering (LSR) technique', published in Fleischwirtschaft, 2000, volume 80, number 4, pages 133-135;

Paper by P Foster, C McLean, A Welch, B Griffin, J Hardy, A Bartley, S MacDonald and A Bailey, 'Removal of abnormal prion protein by plasma fractionation', published in Transfusion science, 2000, volume 22, pages 53-56;

Paper by T Baron, J Madec, D Calavas, Y Richard and F Barillet, 'Comparison of French natural scrapie isolates with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and experimental scrapie infected sheep', published in Neuroscience letters, 2000, volume 284, pages 175-178;

Paper by M Jeffrey and J Fraser, 'Tubulovesicular particles occur early in the incubation period of murine scrapie', published in Acta Neuropathologica, 2000, volume 99, pages 525-528;

Paper by N Mabbott, A Williams, C Farquhar, M Pasparakis, G Kollias and M Bruce, 'Tumor necrosis factor alpha-deficient, but not interleukin-6-deficient, mice resist peripheral infection with scrapie', published in the Journal of Virology, 2000, volume 74, number 7, pages 3338-3344;

Paper by A Mange, N Nishida, O Milhavet, H McMahon, D Casanova and S Lehmann, 'Amphotericin B inhibits the generation of the scrapie isoform of the prion protein in infected cultures', published in the Journal of Virology, 2000, volume 74, number 7, pages 3135-3140;

Paper by S Demart, J Fournier, C Creminion, Y Frobert, F Lamoury, D Marce, C Lasmezas, D Dormont, J Grassi and J Deslys, 'New insight into abnormal prion protein using monoclonal antibodies', published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 1999, volume 265, Pages 652-657.

 

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