The sympathetic nervous system is involved in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Prion epizoonoses spread from animals consumed by humans raise the question of which pathways lead to prion neuroinvasion after oral exposure of humans. Here we show that neurons of sympathetic ganglia of patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) accumulate the abnormal isoform of the p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature medicine 2003-09, Vol.9 (9), p.1121-1122
Hauptverfasser: Haïk, Stéphane, Faucheux, Baptiste A, Sazdovitch, Véronique, Privat, Nicolas, Kemeny, Jean-Louis, Perret-Liaudet, Armand, Hauw, Jean-Jacques
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Zusammenfassung:Prion epizoonoses spread from animals consumed by humans raise the question of which pathways lead to prion neuroinvasion after oral exposure of humans. Here we show that neurons of sympathetic ganglia of patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) accumulate the abnormal isoform of the protein prion. This observation shows the involvement of the sympathetic nervous system in the pathogenesis of vCJD and suggests a role for GUT-associated sympathetic neurons in prion propagation in humans after oral contamination.
ISSN:1078-8956
1546-170X
DOI:10.1038/nm922