Rapid and Quantitative Assay of Amyloid-Seeding Activity in Human Brains Affected with Prion Diseases.

The infectious agents of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are composed of amyloidogenic prion protein, PrPSc. Real-time quaking-induced conversion can amplify very small amounts of PrPSc seeds in tissues/body fluids of patients or animals. Using this in vitro PrP-amyloid amplification a...

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Main Authors: Hanae Takatsuki, Katsuya Satoh, Kazunori Sano, Takayuki Fuse, Takehiro Nakagaki, Tsuyoshi Mori, Daisuke Ishibashi, Ban Mihara, Masaki Takao, Yasushi Iwasaki, Mari Yoshida, Ryuichiro Atarashi, Noriyuki Nishida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4466537?pdf=render