Update on the provisional estimation of developing iatrogenic variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from human islet cell transplantation procedures

Transplantation. 2014 Jun 27;97(12):e73-5. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000176.
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Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / metabolism
  • Collagenases / adverse effects*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / etiology*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / metabolism
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / transmission
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Iatrogenic Disease*
  • Islets of Langerhans Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Prions / metabolism
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Thermolysin / adverse effects*
  • Tissue and Organ Harvesting / adverse effects*

Substances

  • Prions
  • Collagenases
  • Liberase
  • Thermolysin