Publication Date:
2004-01-31
Description:
Neuronal death is a prominent, but poorly understood, pathological hallmark of prion disease. Notably, in the absence of the cellular prion protein (PrPC), the disease-associated isoform, PrPSc, appears not to be intrinsically neurotoxic, suggesting that PrPC itself may participate directly in the prion neurodegenerative cascade. Here, cross-linking PrPC in vivo with specific monoclonal antibodies was found to trigger rapid and extensive apoptosis in hippocampal and cerebellar neurons. These findings suggest that PrPC functions in the control of neuronal survival and provides a model to explore whether cross-linking of PrPC by oligomeric PrPSc can promote neuronal loss during prion infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Solforosi, Laura -- Criado, Jose R -- McGavern, Dorian B -- Wirz, Sebastian -- Sanchez-Alavez, Manuel -- Sugama, Shuei -- DeGiorgio, Lorraine A -- Volpe, Bruce T -- Wiseman, Erika -- Abalos, Gil -- Masliah, Eliezer -- Gilden, Donald -- Oldstone, Michael B -- Conti, Bruno -- Williamson, R Anthony -- AG00080/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- AG04342/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- AI09484/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- HL63817/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Mar 5;303(5663):1514-6. Epub 2004 Jan 29.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14752167" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology/*metabolism
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*Apoptosis
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Cell Survival
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Cerebellum/*cytology
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Complement Activation
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Dimerization
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Hippocampus/*cytology
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Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/immunology/metabolism
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Immunoglobulin G/immunology/metabolism
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In Situ Nick-End Labeling
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules/immunology/metabolism
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Neurons/*physiology
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PrPC Proteins/chemistry/immunology/*metabolism
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Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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