List of Scientific Papers Supplied to SEAC Members by the Secretariat

30th September - 28th November 2000

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Paper by K Brown, D Ritchie, P McBride and M Bruce, 'Detection of PrP in Extraneural tissues', published in Microscopy research and technique, 2000, volume 50, pages 40-45;

Paper by G Garssen, L Van Keulen, C Farquhar, M Smits, J Jacobs, A Bossers, R Meleon and J Langeveld, 'Applicability of three anti-PrP sera including staining of tonsils and brainstem of sheep with scrapie', published in Microscopy research and technique, 2000, volume 50, pages 32-39;

Paper by R Petraroli, G Vaccari, M Pocchiari, 'A rapid and efficient method for the detection of point mutations of the human prion protein gene (PRNP) by direct sequencing', published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2000, volume 99, pages 59-63;

Paper by S Love, C Helps, S Williams, A Shand, J McKinstry, S Brown, D Harbour and M Anil, 'Methods for detection of haematogenous dissemination of brain tissue after stunning of cattle with captive bolt guns', published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2000, volume 99, pages 53-58;

Paper by S Mead, J Beck, A Dickinson, E Fisher and J Collinge, 'Examination of the human prion-like gene Doppel for genetic susceptibility to sporadic and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease', published in Neuroscience letters, 2000, volume 290, pages 117-120;

Paper by H Wille, S Prusiner and F Cohen, 'Scrapie infectivity is independent of amyloid staining properties of the N-terminally truncated prion protein', published in the Journal of Structural Biology, 2000, volume 130, pages 323-328;

Paper by E Bouzamondo, A Milroy, H Ralston III, S Prusiner and S DeArmond, 'Selective neuronal vulnerability during experimental scrapie infection: insights from an ultrastructural investigation', published in Brain Research, 2000, volume 874, pages 210-215;

Paper by Y Choi, J Kim, H Lee, J Jin, E Choi, R Carp and Y Kim, 'Induction of heme oxygenase-1 in the brains of scrapie-infected mice', published in Neuroscience Letters, 2000, volume 289, pages 173-176;

Paper by R Heggebo, C Press, G Gunnes, K Lie, M Tranulis, M Ulvund, M Groschup and T Landsverk, 'Distribution of prion protein in the ileal Peyer's patch of scrapie-free lambs and lambs naturally and experimentally exposed to the scrapie agent', published in the Journal of General Virology, 2000, volume 81, pages 2327-2337;

Paper by K O'Rourke, T Baszler, T Besser, J Miller, R Cutlip, G Wells, S Ryder, S Parish, A Hamir, N Cockett, A Jenny and D Knowles, 'Preclinical diagnosis of scrapie by immunohistochemistry of third eyelid lymphoid tissue', published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2000, volume 38, pages 3254-3259;
Paper by L Manueldis, I Zaitsev, P Koni, Z Lu, R Flavell and W Fritch, 'Follicular dendritic cells and dissemination of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease', published in the Journal of Virology, 2000, volume 74, pages 8614-8622;

Report by Dorothy Bonn, 'Healthy carriers could increase vCJD risk, scientists say', published in the Lancet, 2000, volume 356, page 833;

Commentary by Paul Brown, 'BSE and transmission through blood', published in the Lancet, 2000, volume 356, pages 955-956;

Paper by F Houston, J Foster, A Chong, N Hunter and C Bostock, 'Transmission of BSE by blood transfusion in sheep', published in the Lancet, 2000, volume 356, pages 999-1000;

Paper by A Ghani, N Ferguson, C Donnelly and R Anderson, 'Predicted vCJD mortality in Great Britain', published in Nature, 2000, volume 406, pages 583-584;
Paper by M Gravenor, D Cox, L Hoinville, A Hoek and A McLean, 'Scrapie in Britain during the BSE years', published in Nature, 2000, volume 406, pages 584-585;

Paper by Carine Cohen, 'Does improvement in case ascertainment explain the increase in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease since 1970 in the United Kingdom?', published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, 2000, volume 152, pages 474-479;

Paper by M Guentchev, T Voigtlander, C Haberler, M Groschup and H Budka, 'Evidence for oxidative stress in experimental prion disease', published in Neurobiology of Disease, 2000, volume 7, pages 270-273;

Paper by N Ferguson, C Donnelly, A Ghani and R Anderson, 'Predicting the size of the epidemic of the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease', published in the British Food Journal, 1999, volume 101, pages 86-98;

Abstract by M Donaldson, P McBride and M Beekes, 'Accumulation of PrP protein in the gastrointestinal tract of hamsters orally infected with scrapie', published in Research in Veterinary Science, 2000, volume 68, Supplement A, page 21;

Paper by G Silverman, K Qin, R Moore, Y Yang, P Mastrangelo, P Tremblay, S Prusiner, F Cohen and D Westaway, 'Doppel is an N-Glycosylated, Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein', published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2000, volume 275, pages 26834-26841;

Paper by S Capellari, P Parchi, C Russo, J Sanford, M Sy, P Gambetti and R Petersen, 'Effect of the E200K mutation on prion protein metabolism', published in the American Journal of Pathology, 2000, volume 157, pages 613-622;

Paper by E Flechsig, D Shmerling, I Heghi, A Raeber, M Fischer, A Cozzio, C von Mering, A Aguzzi and C Weissmann, 'Prion protein devoid of the octapeptide repeat region restores susceptibility to scrapie in PrP knockout mice', published in Neuron, 2000, volume 27, pages 399-408;

Paper by B Wong, T Pan, T Liu, R Li, R Peterson, I Jones, P Gambetti, D Brown and M Sy, 'Prion disease: A loss of antioxidant function?', published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications', 2000, volume 275, pages 249-252;

Paper by R Li, T Liu, B Wong, T Pan, M Morillas, W Swietnicki, K O'Rourke, P Gambetti, W Surewicz and M Sy, 'Identification of an epitope in the C terminus of normal prion protein whose expression is modulated by binding events in the N terminus', published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, 2000, volume 301, pages 567-573;

Paper by M Fischer, C Roeckl, H Schwarz and A Aguzzi, 'Binding of disease-associated prion protein to plasminogen', published in Nature, 2000, volume 408, pages 479-483.

 

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