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Melanie Desbruslais

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery(GB)University College London(GB)Medical Research Council(GB)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, Neurological diseases and metabolism, Trace Elements in Health, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

Most-Cited Works

→ The same prion strain causes vCJD and BSE(1997)1,448 cited
→ Tissue distribution of protease resistant prion protein in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease using a highly sensitive immunoblotting assay(2001)688 cited
→ Species-barrier-independent prion replication in apparently resistant species(2000)294 cited
→ Human Prion Protein with Valine 129 Prevents Expression of Variant CJD Phenotype(2004)266 cited
→ Kuru prions and sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease prions have equivalent transmission properties in transgenic and wild-type mice(2008)90 cited
→ Dissociation of pathological and molecular phenotype of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in transgenic human prion protein 129 heterozygous mice(2006)82 cited

→ Characterization of two distinct prion strains derived from bovine spongiform encephalopathy transmissions to inbred mice(2004)

52 cited

→ Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Prion Protein Gene Codon 129VV, and a Novel PrPSc Type in a Young British Woman(2007)35 cited

→ Prion infectivity in variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease rectum(2006)32 cited

For personal use. Only reproduce with permission The Lancet Publishing Group. Yet another spinocerebellar ataxia—will it ever end?(2002)