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[Involvement of the immunological system in the pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies]A Brun
Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Valdeolmos, Espana
Rev Neurol 37:648-53. 2003..We review the current knowledge relative to the role of different immune system components and their contribution the spread of prions throughout the infected organism...
Current strategies for subunit and genetic viral veterinary vaccine developmentAlejandro Brun
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
Virus Res 157:1-12. 2011..This paper reviews several antigen production and delivery strategies other than those based on the use of live viral vectors. Genetic and protein subunit vaccines as well as alternative production systems are considered in this review...
Antigen delivery systems for veterinary vaccine development. Viral-vector based delivery systemsAlejandro Brun
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
Vaccine 26:6508-28. 2008....
A DNA vaccine encoding ubiquitinated Rift Valley fever virus nucleoprotein provides consistent immunity and protects IFNAR(-/-) mice upon lethal virus challengeHani Boshra
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Valdeolmos, Madrid 28130, Spain
Vaccine 29:4469-75. 2011....
Rift valley fever: recent insights into pathogenesis and preventionHani Boshra
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Carretera de Valdeolmos El Casar s n, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain 28130
J Virol 85:6098-105. 2011..Progress in understanding the epidemiology of Rift Valley fever has also enabled prediction of potential outbreaks well in advance, thus providing another tool to combat the physical and economic impact of this disease...
Comparison of three monoclonal antibodies for use in immunohistochemical detection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy protease-resistant prion proteinFrancisco J Salguero
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Madrid, Spain
J Vet Diagn Invest 18:106-9. 2006..In fact, 1 MAb (2A11) was able to react with PrPres deposits in the absence of a denaturing step, yielding the strongest signal and confirming the usefulness of MAb 2A11 in immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of BSE...
Proteinase K enhanced immunoreactivity of the prion protein-specific monoclonal antibody 2A11Alejandro Brun
, INIA, Ctra Valdeolmos a El Casar sn, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
Neurosci Res 48:75-83. 2004..Since definitive diagnosis of prion diseases rely on IHC assays of proteinase K-treated samples, the use of mAb 2A11 might contribute to reduce the occurrence of false positive detection due to incomplete proteinase K digestion...
Subclinical bovine spongiform encephalopathy infection in transgenic mice expressing porcine prion proteinJoaquin Castilla
Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
J Neurosci 24:5063-9. 2004..Collectively, our findings suggest that these poTg mice could be used as a sensitive bioassay model for prion detection in pigs...
Reduced susceptibility to bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions in transgenic mice expressing a bovine PrP with five octapeptide repeatsAlejandro Brun
Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, INIA, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
J Gen Virol 88:1842-9. 2007..These results raise the possibility of selecting cattle breeds bearing the 5OR Prnp allele that are less susceptible to prion infection...
Altered lymphocyte homeostasis after oral prion infection in mouseF Díaz San Segundo
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Carretera de Algete a El Casar km 8, 100, Valdeolmos 28130, Madrid, Spain
Vet Immunol Immunopathol 122:204-15. 2008..Altogether, these results suggest that normal regulation of lymphocyte populations becomes altered along the progression of a prion infection...
Development and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against Rift Valley fever virus nucleocapsid protein generated by DNA immunizationRaquel Martín-Folgar
Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, Carretera de Valdeolmos, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain
MAbs 2:275-84. 2010..These monoclonal antibodies constitute useful tools for diagnosis, especially for the detection of serum anti-RVFV antibodies from a broad range of species by means of competitive ELISA...
Protection against lethal Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) infection in transgenic IFNAR(-/-) mice induced by different DNA vaccination regimensGema Lorenzo
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal CISA INIA, Ctra Algete El Casar, 28130 Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain
Vaccine 28:2937-44. 2010..Interestingly, the combination of both vaccine constructs induced specific lymphoblast proliferation upon stimulation with a recombinant nucleoprotein...
Transgenic mice expressing bovine PrP with a four extra repeat octapeptide insert mutation show a spontaneous, non-transmissible, neurodegenerative disease and an expedited course of BSE infectionJ Castilla
Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, INIA, 28130 Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain
FEBS Lett 579:6237-46. 2005..This Tg mouse model constitutes a new way of understanding the pathobiology of bovine transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Its potential applications include the assessment of new therapies against prion diseases...
Vertical transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions evaluated in a transgenic mouse modelJ Castilla
, Ctra. de Valdeolmes a El Casar, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
J Virol 79:8665-8. 2005..Also, these results may complement previous epidemiological data supporting the occurrence of vertical BSE transmission in cattle...
Different behavior toward bovine spongiform encephalopathy infection of bovine prion protein transgenic mice with one extra repeat octapeptide insert mutationJ Castilla
Center of Animal Health Investigation, National Institute of Agricultural Technology and Investigation, Valdeolmos, 28130 Madrid, Spain
J Neurosci 24:2156-64. 2004..These findings may help us improve the current mouse bioassays and understand the role of the octapeptide repeat region in susceptibility to disease...
Early detection of PrPres in BSE-infected bovine PrP transgenic miceJ Castilla
Centro de Investigacion en Sanidad Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain
Arch Virol 148:677-91. 2003..Interestingly, transgenic mice-propagated sheep scrapie prions displayed distinct biochemical properties when compared to both the original sheep scrapie and transgenic mouse-propagated BSE inoculum...
[Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in animals]A Brun
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias INIA, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Espana
Rev Neurol 31:133-7. 2000..Amongst these, undoubtedly the best known is that affecting cattle, since the association between consumption of beef and its derivatives and the appearance of a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans has been established...
Discrimination of sheep susceptible and resistant to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies by an haplotype specific monoclonal antibodyJ M Bilheude
Bio Rad, R and D TSE, 3 Bd Raymond Poincaré, 92430 Marnes La Coquette, France
J Virol Methods 145:169-72. 2007..The test allows the efficient discrimination of R(171) homozygotes, R(171) heterozygotes and non-R(171) carriers, therefore offering a rapid, cheap and easy to use alternative method to select sheep for their resistance to scrapie...
