Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Estimating prion concentration in fluids and tissues by quantitative PMCA

Nature Methods 7, 519–520 (1 July 2010) | doi:10.1038/nmeth.1465

Prions, the proteinaceous infectious agent responsible for prion diseases, can be detected with high sensitivity by protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) technology. Here we describe a quantitative PMCA procedure to calculate the concentration of very low levels of prions in biological samples.

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