Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
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Scientists are conducting biochemical analyses of brain tissue, blood, spinal fluid, urine, and serum in hope of determining the nature of the transmissible agent or agents causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).
To help with this research, they are seeking biopsy and autopsy tissue, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid from patients with CJD and related diseases. The following investigators have expressed an interest in receiving such material:
Dr. Pierluigi Gambetti, Director
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
Institute of Pathology
Room 419, Case Western Reserve University
2085 Adelbert Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
Telephone: (216) 368-0587
Fax: (216) 368-4090
Email: cjdsurv@cwru.edu
Website: www.cjdsurveillance.com/
Dr. Laura Manuelidis
Yale University School of Medicine
Section of Neuropathology
310 Cedar Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Telephone: (203) 785-4442
Dr. Stephen DeArmond or Dr. Stanley Prusiner
Department of Pathology / Neuropathology Unit
HSW 430
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California 94143
Telephone: (415) 476-5236
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References:
www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm
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