Research Article - (2014) Volume 5, Issue 4
Comparative Study of Prions in Iatrogenic and Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Mai Abouelsaad1, Wen-Quan Zou1,7,8,9*, Qingzhong Kong1,7, Pierluigi Gambetti1, James W. Ironside6, Paul Brown5, Gong-Xian Wang9, Manuel Camacho Martinez1, Dimitris Gazgalis1, Xiangzhu Xiao1#, Liang Zeng1,9, Emmanuelle Uro-Coste3,4, Marie-Bernadette Delisle3,4, Jacqueline Mikol2, Ignazio Cali1,10, Liuting Qing1 and Jue Yuan1#
- 1Department of Pathology and National Prion Disease, Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, 2085 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- 2Department of Pathology, Hôpital Lariboisière, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, Paris, France
- 3Department of Pathology, Rangueil University Hospital, avenue Jean Poulhes, TSA 50032, 31059 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
- 4INSERM U858, I2MR, Team 15, BP 84225, 31432 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
- 5Commissariat à 1’Énergie Atomique (CEA), Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
- 6National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, Western General Hospital Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
- 7Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, 2085 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- 8National Center for Regenerative Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 2085 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- 9The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, The People’s Republic of China
- 10Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- #Contributed equally to this work
*Corresponding Author:
Wen-Quan Zou,
M.D., Ph.D., Institute of Pathology,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2085 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA, Tel: +1-216-368-8993, Fax: +1-216-368-8993
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