Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...

CSF analysis can detect immune response disorders. The immune system can cause damage to the central nervous system through inflammation, destruction of the myelin sheath around the nerves ...

However, the clumping of tau protein into the NFT structures ... core provides what they described as an accessible CSF biomarker that can detect small nonfibrillar tau species.

You have full access to this article via your institution. Figure 1: QUIC reactions seeded with brain homogenates and CSF samples from normal or scrapie-affected hamsters. These observations ...