Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other prion diseases.


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Nature reviews. Disease primers
ISSN: 2056-676X
Titre abrégé: Nat Rev Dis Primers
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101672103

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Date de publication:
29 Feb 2024
Historique:
accepted: 22 01 2024
medline: 1 3 2024
pubmed: 1 3 2024
entrez: 29 2 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Prion diseases share common clinical and pathological characteristics such as spongiform neuronal degeneration and deposition of an abnormal form of a host-derived protein, termed prion protein. The characteristic features of prion diseases are long incubation times, short clinical courses, extreme resistance of the transmissible agent to degradation and lack of nucleic acid involvement. Sporadic and genetic forms of prion diseases occur worldwide, of which genetic forms are associated with mutations in PRNP. Human to human transmission of these diseases has occurred due to iatrogenic exposure, and zoonotic forms of prion diseases are linked to bovine disease. Significant progress has been made in the diagnosis of these disorders. Clinical tools for diagnosis comprise brain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid tests. Aggregation assays for detection of the abnormally folded prion protein have a clear potential to diagnose the disease in peripherally accessible biofluids. After decades of therapeutic nihilism, new treatment strategies and clinical trials are on the horizon. Although prion diseases are relatively rare disorders, understanding their pathogenesis and mechanisms of prion protein misfolding has significantly enhanced the field in research of neurodegenerative diseases.

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doi: 10.1038/s41572-024-00497-y
pii: 10.1038/s41572-024-00497-y
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Auteurs

Inga Zerr (I)

National Reference Center for CJD Surveillance, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany. ingazerr@med.uni-goettingen.de.

Anna Ladogana (A)

Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Simon Mead (S)

MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK.

Peter Hermann (P)

National Reference Center for CJD Surveillance, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany.

Gianluigi Forloni (G)

Department of Neuroscience, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Brian S Appleby (BS)

Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry and Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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