Sentences with word «spongiform»

[2] Following the identification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the Canadian cattle herd in May 2003, exports of beef from Canada were shut down worldwide, including to Korea.

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.

The disease is part of a group known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which includes mad cow and a few other rare diseases.

The serums of some patients with subacute spongiform encephalopathies contain an autoantibody in higher titer against a normal fibrillar protein within the axon of mature central neurons in culture.

The host range of subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies is described.

Before winning his Nobel prize, Stanley Prusiner was ridiculed for suggesting that something he called a prion caused spongiform brain diseases

Transfer to the bottom of a 7 - inch spongiform pan or cake pan.

mixture to a greased 7 - inch spongiform pan, smaller brownie pan, or cake pan of choice.

An innovative new technique could finally lead to an early diagnostic test for diseases such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE), or «mad cow», and its human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob Disease (vCJD).

Seven months later, the UK Central Veterinary Laboratory diagnosed spongiform encephalopathy.

James Ironside, a pathologist at the National CJD Surveillance Unit, discovered that the brains of these patients showed unusual spongiform symptoms.

It now seems very likely that a previously unknown form of infection is responsible for transmitting BSE in cattle and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, diseases both belonging to the group known as transmissable spongiform encephalopathies.

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

A rare disorder called Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy (FSE), the feline analog of BSE prion disease in cattle, may resemble senility in much younger cats which have eaten BSE infected feeds.

Other prion diseases include scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle.

He has written extensively about nuclear history as well as many other topics in the history of science, including a 1997 book, Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Experimental Subacute Spongiform Virus Encephalopathies in Primates and Other Laboratory Animals

The asymptomatic incubation period and the duration of the illnesses in various species of animal hosts is discussed along with information on additional species of Old World and New World monkeys and the domestic cat, which have been shown to be susceptible to subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies.

Cows with bovine spongiform encephalitis have holes in their grey matter, which give their brains a spongy look.

The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.

This year the Bank of Montreal upped the ante by offering five - year mortgages at an interest rate of 2.99 % — leading some to wonder whether its risk management department had been ravaged by bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Mad Cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is fatal to cows and can cause a fatal human brain disease in people who eat meat from infected cows.

Some of those nations were previously banned because of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), concerns.

Brazil only just regained access to the Chinese market in July last year after the lifting of an import ban related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

I write this in the dark days when carnivores are living in the shadows of twin plagues that are stalking the ranching world: bovine spongiform encephalopathy («mad cow» disease) and hoof - and - mouth disease.

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)

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.

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.

Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), suggested that the aberrant prion proteins thought to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), as the disease is formally known, may coexist in sheep along with the prions implicated in scrapie, an illness that does not appear to infect humans.

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.

In November 1995, MAFF scientists informed the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), which had been set up in May 1990, that spot checks on abattoirs had revealed that the SBO ban was not being strictly enforced.

Nearly a year later, the government set up a working party chaired by Oxford University professor of zoology, Richard Southwood, to investigate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and any implications for human health.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is caused by a misfolded protein — a prion — which accumulates in brain tissue, causing death.

PrP is expressed at high levels in the brain, and prion diseases, including Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or «mad cow disease») in cows, and scrapie in sheep, wreak havoc on the brain and other neural tissues.

Relations between Britain's scientists and their members of Parliament (MPs) probably reached an all - time low at the height of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) affair, when it seemed that ministers were intent on passing the buck to researchers» «incapable»» of giving a straight answer to the policy makers» questions.

One major development since the original Discover article is the discovery last December of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in Washington State.

But bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, can spread among cattle from recycled feed, and although no similar disease has been found in poultry, regulators are becoming skittish about feeding animals to animals.

Peter Smith, head of the government's Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Council (SEAC) thinks the single positive result offers «limited reassurance», because most people alive in the UK today ate potentially infected meat products before the first measures against BSE were introduced in 1988.

Prions — self - propagating clumps of misfolded protein — have been identified as the cause of several rare but universally fatal neurodegenerative conditions, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, popularly known as mad cow disease.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

In hopes of better managing diseases, such as influenza and mad cow (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), Chowell - Puente uses mathematical and computational models to identify and study the mechanisms involved in transmitting them.

Like scrapie and the other diseases, bovine spongiform encephalopathy is insidious and progressive.

Not all reports will turn out to be bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

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

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.

If bovine spongiform encephalopathy turns out to be infectious, it could cause problems out of proportion to the number of cases.

Other prion diseases include scrapie in sheep; chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in cattle.

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.

The ultimate aim, Goni adds, is an easily ingestible vaccine that could be given to livestock, such as cows, to protect them against BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

The case triggered widespread media attention in Britain, whose cattle industry was hardest hit by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and was ravaged by a foot - and - mouth epidemic in 2001.