With the advances in medicine and technology,life expectancy has increased significantly in recent decades.While this is positive news,it also brings major challenges to public health systems.As people live longer,the...
supported by Telethon Italy award GGP15225(to RC and GM);Italian Ministry of Health award RF-2016-02362950(to RC and CZ);the CJD Foundation USA(to RC);the Associazione Italiana Encefalopatie da Prioni(AIEnP)(to RC).
PrPSc,a misfolded,aggregation-prone isoform of the cellular prion protein(PrPC),is the infectious prion agent responsible for fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other mammals.PrPSccan adopt different patho...
supported by funding from the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation;Inc.(USA);the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative (AFI e.V.,Germany);the Werner-Otto-Stiftung (Hamburg,Germany)(all to HCA);the China Scholarship Council (to FS);European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement N°101030402 (to AMA);Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 877"Proteolysis as a regulatory event in pathophysiology"(to MG)。
In the last decades,the role of the prion protein(PrP) in neurodegenerative diseases has been intensively investigated,initially in prion diseases of humans(e.g., Creutzfeldt-J akob disease) and animals(e.g.,scrapie i...