The Tissue Core will play a central role in this Program Project by providing well-characterized human andanimal brain tissue as well as other tissues and body fluids to the Research Projects. In addition, the TissueCore will continue to examine novel and atypical cases. These activities are carried out through threeSpecific Aims.
In Specific Aim 1. the Tissue Core will determine the presence, type, severity and anatomicdistribution of structural lesions in tissues from several lines of transgenic mice and Syrian Hamsters. Brainsother tissues as needed will be processed for histological and immunohistochemical examinations, andprofiles of the histological lesions and maps of scrapie prion protein distribution will be developed asnecessary. They will be constructed in a way to be comparable to similar data obtained from the humanprion diseases that the animal models may match.
Specific Aim 2 deals with human tissues. Well-characterized human brain tissues will be distributed-to the Animal Core for inoculation to receptive animalsand will be provided to Research Projects to validate to ability of PMCA to faithfully reproduce thecharacteristics of in vitro amplified PrPSc and overcome the species barrier. Human brains carryingdiseasesmodeled in animals will be examined comparatively with the brains from the animal models. In addition, theTissue Core will continue detailed study of individual cases that carry atypical or novel forms of prion diseaseas well as groups of cases of particular interest. An important asset of the Tissue Core is its close interactionwith the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, which collects tissues and body fluids fromapproximately two hundred cases of human prion disease per year. As a result, the Tissue Core is uniquelysituated to examine rare and novel cases of prion disease.
In Specific Aim 3. the Tissue Core will continue tocollect cases of human and animal prion diseases from other countries as well as the United States includingvariant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy and bovine amyloidotic spongiformencephalopathy. These tissues are catalogued in a custom-made database and will be available to allresearch laboratories in the United States and around the world.
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