Sentences with phrase «infectious mad cow»

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FFI belongs to a class of infectious prion diseases that include Mad Cow Disease.

Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of «mad cow disease» or BSE, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, which has long remained a mystery.

Prion proteins are the infectious pathogens that cause Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease.

Her research focuses on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a class of brain diseases that includes «mad cow disease» and that can be transmitted by injecting or ingesting infectious tissue.

Vaccines have treated infectious prions in mice, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of «mad cow disease».

Prions are proteins that, when they misfold, are thought to become self - propagating and cause infectious diseases like mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease and other disorders.

Synthetic, protein - only prions can cause a mad cow — like disease in mice, as can brain tissue from these mice, demonstrating that misfolded proteins are the infectious agents in prion disease.

The deformed or misfolded protein might then spread via the nervous system to the brain as a prion, or infectious protein, in similar fashion to mad cow disease.

Prions, the infectious agents best known for causing degenerative brain disorders such as «mad cow» disease, may have been spotted in bacteria.

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.

Like mad cow disease, CWD is caused by an infectious agent known as a prion.

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.

Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include «mad cow disease,» are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.