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  • A comparative immunohistochemical study of Kuru and senile plaques with a special reference to glial reactions at various stages of amyloid plaque formation [5].
  • Kuru plaques with multicentric cores and fine granular deposits were a characteristic feature of PrP deposits [5].
  • Kuru, CJD, and GSS illustrate the infectious, sporadic, and genetic mechanisms for human prion diseases, respectively [6].
  • These plaques which suggested Kuru plaques measuring 10 to 60 micron were strongly PAS positive and had a dense central core surrounded by a halo of fine radially arranged fibrils [7].

References

  1. Stanley Prusiner: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977. Prions: a new principle in infectious neuro-degenerative diseases. Kuru, scrapie and Creutzfeld-Jacob. Rigler, R. Neuroreport (1997) [Pubmed]
  2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Australian surveillance update to 31 December 2004. Klug, G.M., Boyd, A., Lewis, V., Kvasnicka, M., Lee, J.S., Masters, C.L., Collins, S.J. Commun. Dis. Intell. (2005) [Pubmed]
  3. Kuru and "new variant" CJD. Verdrager, J. Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Public Health (1997) [Pubmed]
  4. Genetic and environmental factors determining the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Libyan Jews. Chapman, J., Korczyn, A.D. Neuroepidemiology. (1991) [Pubmed]
  5. A comparative immunohistochemical study of Kuru and senile plaques with a special reference to glial reactions at various stages of amyloid plaque formation. Miyazono, M., Iwaki, T., Kitamoto, T., Kaneko, Y., Doh-ura, K., Tateishi, J. Am. J. Pathol. (1991) [Pubmed]
  6. Prion diseases of the central nervous system. Prusiner, S.B., DeArmond, S.J. Monographs in pathology. (1990) [Pubmed]
  7. An autopsy case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with kuru-like neuropathological changes. Hirano, T., Tsuchiyama, H., Kawai, K., Mori, K. Acta Pathol. Jpn. (1977) [Pubmed]
 
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