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Ultraviolet ozone treatment reduces levels of disease associated prion protein and prion infectivity
... levels. (a) Total (organic and inorganic) carbon was meas- ured following 0, 1, 2, 4 or 8 weeks of UV-ozone treatment. Bars represent means ± one standard deviation; numerical values above bars indicate the mean mass of ...
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Endogenous Brain Lipids Inhibit Prion Amyloid Formation In Vitro
... from brain homogenates. Lipids were extracted from 10% brain homogenates using a modification of the method of Folch et ...10% brain homogenate was incubated with 900 l of 100% ethanol at room ...
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PrPc Does Not Mediate Internalization of PrPSc but Is Required at an Early Stage for De Novo Prion Infection of Rov Cells
... cells could be visualized by immunostaining and confocal anal- ysis of exposed Rov cultures (Fig. 1D). Moreover, blocking endocytosis by lowering the temperature during the exposure period strongly reduced the amount of ...
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Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies to Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis viruses.
... DATC virion capsid proteins A, partially purified DAMB virion capsid proteins B to F, or a crude DAMB brain homogenate G to K were run on SDS-PAGE, blotted to nitrocellulose paper, and o[r] ...
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Prion subcellular fractionation reveals infectivity spectrum, with a high titre-low PrPreslevel disparity
... various subcellular fractions. However, an explanation for this result is that the transmissible prions within M1000 brain homogenate were already largely in an optimal state, pre-formed and associated with ...
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EVALUATION OF ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS EXTRACT ON MEMORY IMPAIRED MICENeeraj Kumar*, Chetna Dhiman, Preeti KothiyalDOWNLOAD/VIEW
... Objective:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of Anethum graveolens (Dill) extract on scopolamine induced learning and memory impairment in mice. The antioxidant property of Anethum graveolens was ...
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Correlation between Bioassay and Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Decontamination Studies
... human brain materials, the generated Surf-PMCA amplicons obtained from wires contaminated with those brains or from FIG 1 Evaluation of standard and commercially available decontamination procedures on vCJD ...
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Gut-brain axis metabolic pathway regulates antidepressant efficacy of albiflorin
... the brain homogenate in vitro (Figure ...the brain after treatment with benzoic acid or albiflorin (Figure ...the brain and exert an antidepressant ...
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Bile Acids Reduce Prion Conversion, Reduce Neuronal Loss, and Prolong Male Survival in Models of Prion Disease
... increase in PSD-95. This reduction of translation is thought to reduce protein burden in a cell. The accumulation of misfolded protein in the ER is one cause of ER stress that can lead to phos- phorylation of eIF2 ␣ . ...
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Chronic neurodegeneration induces Type I interferon synthesis via STING, shaping microglial phenotype and accelerating disease progression
... Similarly, we have previously described significant neuronal loss in the posterior thalamic nucleus (Reis et al., 2015). The extent of neu- ronal loss, assessed by NeuN immunohistochemistry in the Po nucleus (dotted ...
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Inactivation of Prions by Acidic Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
... prion-infected brain homog- enate was incubated in 1% ...infected brain homogenate were incubated at room temperature for 15 min with PBS (lanes 1, 4, 7, and 10), 50 mM Tris (pH ...
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Transmission of Scrapie by Steel-surface-bound Prions
... w/v brain homogenate of terminally scrapie-sick mice, referred to below as “standard conditions” ...the brain of Tga20 indicator mice ...scrapie-infected brain rendered wires as infectious as ...
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Replication Efficiency of Soil-Bound Prions Varies with Soil Type
... replicate brain homogenate controls on the same gel to control for intergel ...to brain homogenate control samples subjected to PMCA concurrently to control for variance between PMCA ...
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Co-occurrence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and prion disease
... Brain homogenate (BH) (10% w / v ) were prepared on ice with lysis buffer (LB100) (100 mM Tris HCl pH 7.0, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM EDTA, 0.5% Nonidet P-40 (NP-40), 0.5% sodium deoxycholate), and brought to pH ...
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Alteration of the Chronic Wasting Disease Species Barrier by In Vitro Prion Amplification
... of brain homogenates for ...Normal brain homogenates (NBHs) were prepared as previously described ...positive brain homogenate D10 was prepared from a CWD-infected mule deer (generously ...
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SYNTHESIS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF SOME NEW [1-BENZYL-2- PHENYL-SUBSTITUTED]-1H-5, 6-SUBSTITUTED-BENZO (d) IMIDAZOLES DERIVATIVES
... benzaldehydes. All these compounds were characterized by means of their IR, 1 H NMR and Mass Spectroscopic data. Antioxidant activity of these compounds was evaluated by ferrous induced lipid peroxidation in rat ...
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Isolation of Borna Disease Virus from Human Brain Tissue
... human brain-derived BDV in ...with brain tissue from patient ...a brain homogenate (hippocampus plus cerebellum) from patient ...and brain regions were prepared and analyzed by RT-PCR ...
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Myositis facilitates preclinical accumulation of pathological prion protein in muscle
... lution (pH 7.4) was added, vortexed, and incubated with vigorous agitation for 30 min at 37°C. Samples were then centrifuged at 16,000 × g for 30 min, after which super- natants were carefully removed and the remaining ...
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An in vitro model for assessing effective scrapie decontamination
... To derive a scrapie brain standard curve, dilutions of scrapie positive brain homogenate were used.. to seed PMCA which was then taken to 9 rounds of amplification.[r] ...
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Alteration of Prion Strain Emergence by Nonhost Factors
... uninfected brain homogenate in PMCA conversion buffer before the next round of ...uninfected brain homogenate was 1:20 for the first round of PMCA, 1:10 for the second round, and 1:2 for the ...
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