• Adaptive selection of a prion strain conformer corresponding to established North American CWD during propagation of novel emergent Norwegian strains in mice expressing elk or deer prion protein 

      Bian, Jifeng; Kim, Sehun; Kane, Sarah J.; Crowell, Jenna; Sun, Julianna L.; Christiansen, Jeffrey; Saijo, Eri; Moreno, Julie A.; DiLisio, James; Burnett, Emily; Pritzkow, Sandra; Gorski, Damian; Soto, Claudio; Kreeger, Terry J.; Balachandran, Aru; Mitchell, Gordon; Miller, Michael W.; Nonno, Romolo; Vikøren, Turid; Våge, Jørn; Madslien, Knut; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Vuong, Tram Thu; Benestad, Sylvie Lafond; Telling, Glenn C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Prions are infectious proteins causing fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative diseases of animals and humans. Replication involves template-directed refolding of host encoded prion protein, PrPC, by its infectious conformation, ...
    • Challenges and opportunities using hunters to monitor chronic wasting disease among wild reindeer in the digital era 

      Mysterud, Atle; Viljugrein, Hildegunn; Hopp, Petter; Andersen, Roy; Bakka, Haakon; Benestad, Sylvie L.; Madslien, Knut; Moldal, Torfinn; Rauset, Geir Rune; Strand, Olav; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Vikøren, Turid; Våge, Jørn; Rolandsen, Christer Moe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      1. Surveillance of wildlife diseases poses considerable logistical challenges compared to that of humans or livestock. Citizen science can enable broader coverage, but building an efficient disease monitoring system that ...
    • Challenges and opportunities using hunters to monitor chronic wasting disease among wild reindeer in the digital era 

      Mysterud, Atle; Viljugrein, Hildegunn; Hopp, Petter; Andersen, Roy; Bakka, Haakon; Benestad, Sylvie L.; Madslien, Knut; Moldal, Torfinn; Rauset, Geir Rune; Strand, Olav; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Vikøren, Turid; Våge, Jørn; Rolandsen, Christer Moe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      1. Surveillance of wildlife diseases poses considerable logistical challenges com-pared to that of humans or livestock. Citizen science can enable broader cover-age, but building an efficient disease monitoring system that ...
    • Goats naturally devoid of PrPC are resistant to scrapie 

      Salvesen, Øyvind; Espenes, Arild; Reiten, Malin Rokseth; Vuong, Tram Thu; Malachin, Giulia; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Andréoletti, Olivier; Olsaker, Ingrid; Benestad, Sylvie Lafond; Tranulis, Michael A.; Ersdal, Cecilie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
    • Goats naturally devoid of PrPC are resistant to scrapie 

      Salvesen, Øyvind; Espenes, Arild; Reiten, Malin Rokseth; Vuong, Tram Thu; Malachin, Giulia; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Andréoletti, Olivier; Olsaker, Ingrid; Benestad, Sylvie Lafond; Tranulis, Michael A.; Ersdal, Cecilie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Prion diseases are progressive and fatal, neurodegenerative disorders described in humans and animals. According to the "protein-only" hypothesis, the normal host-encoded prion protein (PrPC) is converted into a pathological ...
    • Immunohistochemical expression of β-catenin, Ki67, CD3 and CD18 in canine colorectal adenomas and adenocarcinomas 

      Herstad, Kristin Marie Valand; Gunnes, Gjermund; Rørtveit, Runa; Kolbjørnsen, Øyvor; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Skancke, Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
    • No evidence of uptake or propagation of reindeer CWD prions in environmentally exposed sheep 

      Harpaz, Erez; Salvesen, Øyvind; Rauset, Geir Rune; Aqsa, Mahmood; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Ytrehus, Bjørnar; Benestad, Sylvie L.; Tranulis, Michael A.; Espenes, Arild; Ersdal, Cecilie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of cervids first reported in North America in the 1960s. In Europe, CWD was first diagnosed in 2016 in a wild reindeer in Norway. Detection of two more cases in ...