Christina Sigurdson

Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology


Licenses
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists (Anatomic Pathology)
Education
1990, BS with honors, University of California, Riverside, CA
1994, DVM, University of California, Davis, CA
2001, PhD, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Research Focus
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Ten Recent Publications

2013
Perrott, MR, Sigurdson, CJ, Mason, GL, Hoover, EA
Mucosal transmission and pathogenesis of chronic wasting disease in ferrets.

2013
Bett, C, Kurt, TD, Lucero, M, Trejo, M, Rozemuller, AJ, Kong, Q, Nilsson, KP, Masliah, E, Oldstone, MB, Sigurdson, CJ
Defining the conformational features of anchorless, poorly neuroinvasive prions.

2012
Sajnani, G, Silva, CJ, Ramos, A, Pastrana, MA, Onisko, BC, Erickson, ML, Antaki, EM, Dynin, I, Vázquez-Fernández, E, Sigurdson, CJ, Carter, JM, Requena, JR
PK-sensitive PrP is infectious and shares basic structural features with PK-resistant PrP.

2012
Bett, C, Fernández-Borges, N, Kurt, TD, Lucero, M, Nilsson, KP, Castilla, J, Sigurdson, CJ
Structure of the ß2-a2 loop and interspecies prion transmission.

2012
Mitchell, GB, Sigurdson, CJ, O'Rourke, KI, Algire, J, Harrington, NP, Walther, I, Spraker, TR, Balachandran, A
Experimental oral transmission of chronic wasting disease to reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus).

2012
Masliah, E, Rockenstein, E, Inglis, C, Adame, A, Bett, C, Lucero, M, Sigurdson, CJ
Prion infection promotes extensive accumulation of a-synuclein in aged human a-synuclein transgenic mice.

2012
Bett, C, Joshi-Barr, S, Lucero, M, Trejo, M, Liberski, P, Kelly, JW, Masliah, E, Sigurdson, CJ
Biochemical properties of highly neuroinvasive prion strains.

2012
Cao, K, Farahi, M, Dakanali, M, Chang, WM, Sigurdson, CJ, Theodorakis, EA, Yang, J
Aminonaphthalene 2-cyanoacrylate (ANCA) probes fluorescently discriminate between amyloid-ß and prion plaques in brain.