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SUBMITTER: Redaelli V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5384244 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Redaelli Veronica V Bistaffa Edoardo E Zanusso Gianluigi G Salzano Giulia G Sacchetto Luca L Rossi Martina M De Luca Chiara Maria Giulia CM Di Bari Michele M Portaleone Sara Maria SM Agrimi Umberto U Legname Giuseppe G Roiter Ignazio I Forloni Gianluigi G Tagliavini Fabrizio F Moda Fabio F
Scientific reports 20170407
Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) is a genetic prion disease caused by a point mutation in the prion protein gene (PRNP) characterized by prominent thalamic atrophy, diffuse astrogliosis and moderate deposition of PrP<sup>Sc</sup> in the brain. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate that the olfactory mucosa (OM) of patients with FFI contains trace amount of PrP<sup>Sc</sup> detectable by PMCA and RT-QuIC. Quantitative PMCA analysis estimated a PrP<sup>Sc</sup> concentration of about 1 × 10<sup>-1 ...[more]