Sentences with phrase «called mad cow»

CJD can be caused by genetic mutations, by exposure to contaminated foods (as with so - called mad cow disease) or even, in rare cases, from accidental exposures during medical procedures, such as surgery or other invasive treatments.

Traders said assurances by Japan, Mexico and Canada that imports of U.S. beef would not be affected by the first case in six years of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), popularly called mad cow, would support the market.

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Soopa and Fatboy never seem to learn so I think Ill call them two «THE MAD COWS» due to their foot and mouth disease.

Buffalo School Board member Carl P. Paladino's latest inflammatory comments to a weekly Buffalo paper saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Obama, referred to the first lady as a man and said he'd like her to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» prompted calls for his removal from the board and sparked outrage from Buffalo to the state capital.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

They found that although the protein stayed soluble for a week or two, it eventually polymerized into long fibers resembling those in so - called prion diseases — brain diseases such as scrapie in sheep, «mad cow disease» in cattle, and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

This week in Science we profile Yale School of Medicine neuropathologist Laura Manuelidis, who has spent her career fighting the consensus that misfolded proteins called prions cause «mad cow disease» and other related brain diseases.

The structures, called amyloid fibrils, are also implicated in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and in prion diseases like Creutzfeldt - Jacob and mad cow disease.

Misshapen proteins called prions lie at the root of mad cow disease and similar brain ailments, but the role of these molecules in their normal form remains unclear.

A type of the disease called variant CJD in humans results from eating meat infected with mad cow disease.

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

Scientists have located two possible receptors for the so - called prion protein (PrP) believed to be at fault in fatal neurological conditions such as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, and scrapie in sheep.

The most well - known prion diseases include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (often called «mad cow disease») and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

Working independently, three teams of researchers have developed a clear picture of the structure and mechanism of the misshapen, threadlike proteins — called prions in their infectious form — that are the hallmarks of mad cow disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and 19 other brain - wasting diseases.

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.

One form, called variant CJD (vCJD), is associated with eating meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as «mad cow» disease.

December 9, 1997 Discovery links new form of inheritance in yeast to «mad - cow» type diseases Researchers from the Howard Hughes Institute at the University of Chicago have discovered that a chaperone protein from yeast, which helps proteins to change their shapes, controls a new, protein - only form of inheritance, called a yeast prion.

Huntington's is one of these, alongside Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and rarer conditions like prion disease (sometimes called «mad cow disease»).

Set 500 years in the future, a mad cow - like disease called «Bent Head» has killed off most of the U.S. population.

A mad cow - like disease called «Bent Head» has killed off millions.