Abstract
Intracerebral inoculation of mice with the M1000 strain of mouse-adapted human prions results in the consistent accumulation of PrPSc in the ileum of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of mice with clinical signs of prion disease. The accumulation of PrPSc in the ileum is accompanied by caspase activation and loss of immunoreactivity in subpopulations of neurons in the enteric nervous system. This suggests that like neurons in the central nervous system, cells in the enteric nervous system are also susceptible to prion-induced toxicity. In this chapter we describe the immunostaining of cells in myenteric plexus preparations of whole mounts prepared from the gastrointestinal tract of prion-infected mice.
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Ellett, L.J., Lawson, V.A. (2017). Preparation and Immunostaining of the Myenteric Plexus of Prion-Infected Mice. In: Lawson, V. (eds) Prions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1658. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7244-9_19
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