Sentences with phrase «like scrapiing»
Like scrapie and the other diseases, bovine spongiform encephalopathy is insidious and progressive.
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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.
This accomplice, the researchers say, allows the protein to cause disorders like «mad cow» disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.