Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with Amyloid-β pathology: an international study

Abstract The presence of pathology related to the deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) has been recently reported in iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (iCJD) acquired from inoculation of growth hormone (GH) extracted from human cadaveric pituitary gland or use of cadaveric dura mater (DM) grafts. To inve...

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Main Authors: Ignazio Cali, Mark L. Cohen, Stéphane Haїk, Piero Parchi, Giorgio Giaccone, Steven J. Collins, Diane Kofskey, Han Wang, Catriona A. McLean, Jean-Philippe Brandel, Nicolas Privat, Véronique Sazdovitch, Charles Duyckaerts, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Ermias D. Belay, Ryan A. Maddox, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Maurizio Pocchiari, Ellen Leschek, Brian S. Appleby, Jiri G. Safar, Lawrence B. Schonberger, Pierluigi Gambetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Acta Neuropathologica Communications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40478-017-0503-z