Cervenakova Larisa, Yakovleva Oksana, McKenzie Carroll
Transmissible Diseases Department, J.H. Holland Laboratory, American Red Cross, Rockville, Maryland 20855, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar;12(3):511-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1205.051348.
We report protease-resistant prion protein (PrPres) in spontaneous lymphoreticular tumors of mice infected with the agent of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). PrPres may accumulate in lymphoreticular system tumors of asymptomatic persons with vCJD. The statistical power of estimates of vCJD prevalence might be increased by expanding screening to include samples of lymphoreticular neoplasms.
我们报告了在感染变异型克雅氏病(vCJD)病原体的小鼠自发淋巴网状肿瘤中存在蛋白酶抗性朊病毒蛋白(PrPres)。PrPres可能在无症状vCJD患者的淋巴网状系统肿瘤中蓄积。通过扩大筛查范围以纳入淋巴网状肿瘤样本,vCJD患病率估计的统计效力可能会提高。