New lead for sporadic CJD cause From: The Scientist | Date: February 24, 2003| Author: | Copyright The Scientist, Inc. Feb 24, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

PRION RESEARCH

A recent murine study suggests that the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) might be caused by meat infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The work of prion specialist John Collinge, Kings College, London, contradicts the prior consensus of the prion community, which held that only the variant form of CJD (vCJD) can

be attributed to BSE-- infected beef, with the sporadic causes arising spontaneously (J. Collinge et al.,

"BSE prions propagate as either variant CJD-like or sporadic CJD-like prion strains in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein," ...

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