Spongiform brain diseases are caused by aberrant protein, new research shows
Spongiform brain diseases are caused by aberrant protein, new research shows
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Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals. The finding, in mice, is expected to advance the understanding of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs, a family of neurodegenerative diseases that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, kuru and fatal familial insomnia in humans, scrapie in sheep, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, also known as “mad cow disease.”
Sourced from: ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News
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