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- Title
Prions: Crossing borders.
- Authors
Jones, Susan
- Abstract
The article discusses the study on infectious prions that cross species barriers to cause diseases by Castilla and colleagues. Prions cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and it contain misfolded form (PrPsc). The experiment use protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PCMA), an optimal version of polymerized chain reaction-like technique. It cites that the study offers evidence that transmission of prions across species barriers can cause diseases with different pathology.
- Subjects
PRIONS; POLYMERASE chain reaction; PATHOLOGY; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; CHRONIC wasting disease
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 11, p796
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro2018