Keyword

kuru

Description: A fatal human prion disease that causes progressive neurological damage and belongs to the group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Primary topic: Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (74%)

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Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction-linked neurodegenerative disorders

2016 · Md. Torequl Islam · Neurological Research · 983

Unconventional Viruses and the Origin and Disappearance of Kuru

1977 · D. Carleton Gajdusek · Science · 890

Experimental Transmission of a Kuru-like Syndrome to Chimpanzees

1966 · D. C. GAJDUSEK, C. J. GIBBS, et al. · Nature · 837

Human spongiform encephalopathy: The national institutes of health series of 300 cases of experimentally transmitted disease

1994 · Paul Brown, C. J. Gibbs, et al. · Annals of Neurology · 817

Mammalian Prion Biology

2004 · Adriano Aguzzi, Magdalini Polymenidou · Cell · 545

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Transmission of multiple system atrophy prions to transgenic mice

2013 · Joel C. Watts, Kurt Giles, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 438

Neuropathological Diagnostic Criteria for Creutzfeldt‐Jakob Disease (CJD) and Other Human Spongiform Encephalopathies (Prion Diseases)

1995 · Herbert Budka, Adriano Aguzzi, et al. · Brain Pathology · 428

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Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods

2006 · John Collinge, Jerome Whitfield, et al. · The Lancet · 427

Scrapie and Kuru

1959 · W.J. Hadlow · The Lancet · 417

Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics

2003 · Simon Mead, Michael P. H. Stumpf, et al. · Science · 394

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

2004 · Steven J Collins, Victoria A Lawson, et al. · The Lancet · 342

Human prion diseases

1994 · Stanley B. Prusiner, Karen K. Hsiao · Annals of Neurology · 328

Pathology of Kuru.

2000 · I KLATZO, D C GAJDUSEK, et al. · PubMed · 282

Molecular biology and pathogenesis of prion diseases

1996 · S PRUSINER · Trends in Biochemical Sciences · 278

Mutations in familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker's syndrome

1989 · Dmitry Goldgaber, Lev G. Goldfarb, et al. · Experimental Neurology · 256

Acquired prion disease: iatrogenic CJD, variant CJD, kuru

2003 · Robert G Will · British Medical Bulletin · 248

Molecular neurology of prion disease

2005 · J Collinge · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry · 234

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Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

1978 · Shirley Lindenbaum · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 231

Prion Diseases

2015 · Michael D. Geschwind · CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology · 223

Infection-Specific Particle from the Unconventional Slow Virus Diseases

1984 · P. A. Merz, R. G. Rohwer, et al. · Science · 215

Some Speculations about Prions, Amyloid, and Alzheimer's Disease

1984 · Stanley B. Prusiner · New England Journal of Medicine · 213

A Novel Protective Prion Protein Variant that Colocalizes with Kuru Exposure

2009 · Simon Mead, Jerome Whitfield, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 206

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A naturally occurring variant of the human prion protein completely prevents prion disease

2015 · Emmanuel A. Asante, Michelle Smidak, et al. · Nature · 198

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An overview of human prion diseases

2011 · Muhammad Imran, Saqib Mahmood · Virology Journal · 197

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Prions and Neurodegenerative Diseases

1987 · Franklin H. Epstein, Stanley B. Prusiner · New England Journal of Medicine · 192

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