| Literature DB >> 10619628 |
Y L Chung1, A Williams, D Ritchie, S C Williams, K K Changani, J Hope, J D Bell.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has given inconsistent results when used as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In order to understand this finding, we studied a hamster model of scrapie by in vivo MRI and histopathology. Vacuolation of neurones/neuropil and gliosis were found to correlate with hypo-intense and hyper-intense changes in the conventional T2-weighted MR images, respectively. These opposing effects were shown to give rise to normal images of a scrapie-affected brain undergoing severe neurodegeneration, and may underlie the variability of previous CJD MRI data.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10619628 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199911260-00002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuroreport ISSN: 0959-4965 Impact factor: 1.837