Sentences with phrase «fatal spongiform encephalopathy»

Fatal spongiform encephalopathy occurred in four chimpanzees 12 to 14 months after inoculation with suspensions of brain from four patients, respectively.

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Mad cow is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal disease caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain and nervous system.

The fatal disease, which they have called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, causes degeneration of the brain.

Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can — under certain circumstances — get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the scientific term for the fatal brain disease caused by prions).

Infamous for causing fatal degenerative brain diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known more commonly as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, and scrapie, prions are proteins that have the ability to self - perpetuate when they assume a particular conformation.

Scientists first discovered prions in the 1980s as the agents behind fatal brain disorders known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or «mad cow» disease, have infected humans, causing fatal brain degeneration.

Although prions are infamous for causing Creutzfeld - Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow's disease, the present study indicates that prions identified in yeast, and possibly in plants, and other organisms may be beneficial.

A video interview with a scientist delves into Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD), the fatal brain - wasting illness associated with mad cow's disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.