Other prion diseases
include scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.
Other prion diseases
include scrapie in sheep; chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, in cattle.
In addition to chronic wasting disease, examples
include scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or «mad cow disease») in animals and variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.
Not exact matches
With the scale of the nvCJD threat to public health still unclear, scientists have been busy investigating the relationship between the strains of prions blamed for neurodegenerative illnesses,
including the presumed connection between BSE and
scrapie.
Several fatal neurological diseases —
including Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and
scrapie in sheep — are marked by the accumulation of protein deposits in the brain.
The researchers then exposed these transgenic mice to prion isolates collected from sick animals,
including classical and atypical strains of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (i.e., mad cow disease), sheep
Scrapie, and deer Chronic Wasting Disease.
And while kuru is of course a singular condition, its cousins —
including mad cow and
scrapie — are the stuff of everyday Western life, and it was for this discovery that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976.