The assessment of pathogenic prions in the brains of eye tissue donors: 2-years experience in the Czech Republic

Cornea

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 996-999

  Jirsova, Katerina ^a,b   Krabcova, Ivana ^a,b   Novakova, Jana ^c   Hnathova, Iveta ^c   Koukolik, Frantisek ^c   Kubesova, Barbara ^d   Netukova, Magdalena ^e   Matej, Radoslav ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague   (Czech Republic)

^c FAKULTNÍ THOMAYEROVA NEMOCNICE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

corneal grafting; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; pathogenic prions; transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PRION;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CZECH REPUBLIC; EYE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALYSIS; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR; EYEBANK; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRANSMISSION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EYE BANKS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 77956229253     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181cc7b37     Document Type: Article

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