Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, including details on mad cow disease, symptoms, causes, variants.

Volume 4 (2008), Issue 8 (August)

1. Review. The changing face of kuru: a personal perspective.
   Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Close association of water channel AQP1 with amyloid-beta deposition in Alzheimer disease brains.
   Acta Neuropathol, 116(3): 247-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. No major change in vCJD agent strain after secondary transmission via blood transfusion.
   PLoS ONE, 3(8): e2878. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. PRNP 1368 polymorphism is not associated with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the Korean population.
   Eur J Neurol, 15(8): 846-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Detection and characterization of proteinase K-sensitive disease-related prion protein with thermolysin.
   Biochem J. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Prions and the proteasome.
   Biochim Biophys Acta. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Atypical presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: The first Italian case associated with E196K mutation in the PRNP gene.
   J Neurol Sci. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Estimating the pathogen safety of manufactured human plasma products: application to fibrin sealants and to thrombin.
   Transfusion, 48(8): 1739-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. alpha-Hemoglobin stabilizing protein is not a suitable marker for a screening test for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
   Transfusion, 48(8): 1616-1626. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Atypical BSE (BASE) transmitted from asymptomatic aging cattle to a primate.
    PLoS ONE, 3(8): e3017. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Coexistence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Lewy body disease, and Alzheimer's disease pathology: An autopsy case showing typical clinical features of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
    Neuropathology. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Characterisation of new monoclonal antibodies reacting with prions from both human and animal brain tissues.
    J Immunol Methods, 337(2): 106-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Age of onset and death in inherited prion disease are heritable.
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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