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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 181, 期 2, 页码 515-524出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.05.001
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- German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Health Canada
An experimental oral bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) challenge study was performed to elucidate the route of infectious prions from the gut to the central nervous system in preclinical and clinical infected animals. Tissue samples collected from the gut and the central and autonomic nervous system from animals sacrificed between 16 and 44 months post infection (mpi) were examined for the presence of the pathological priori protein (PrPSc) by IHC. Moreover, parts of these samples were also bioassayed using bovine cellular prion protein (PrPC) over-expressing transgenic mice (Tgbov XV) that lack the species barrier for bovine prions. A distinct accumulation of PrPSc was observed in the distal ileum, confined to follicles and/or the enteric nervous system, in almost all animals. BSE prions were found in the sympathetic nervous system starting at 16 mpi, and in the parasympathetic nervous system from 20 mpi. A dear dissociation between prion infectivity and detectable PrPSc deposition became obvious. The earliest presence of infectivity in the brain stem was detected at 24 mpi, whereas PrPSc accumulation was first detected after 28 mpi. In summary, our results decipher the centripetal spread of BSE prions along the autonomic nervous system to the central nervous system, starting already halfway in the incubation time. (Am J Pathol 2012, 181:515-524; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.05.001)
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