News tagged with infectious prions
New study shows prions able to jump between species more easily than thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of French researchers has found that prions are more easily able to jump between species than has been previously thought. In their paper published in Science, they show that prions ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Research identifies drug target for prion diseases, 'mad cow'
Scientists at the University of Kentucky have discovered that plasminogen, a protein used by the body to break up blood clots, speeds up the progress of prion diseases such as mad cow disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 10, 2011 |
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New prion discovery reveals drug target for mad cow disease and related illnesses
The joy of a juicy hamburger could make a comeback thanks a new discovery by scientists from the University of Kentucky. In a new research report in the December 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists found that a ...
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Dec 01, 2010 |
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Size of protein aggregates, not abundance, drives spread of prion-based disease
Mad Cow disease and its human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which are incurable and fatal, have been on a welcome hiatus from the news for years, but because mammals remain as vulnerable as ever to infectious diseases ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Study shows infectious prions can arise spontaneously in normal brain tissue
In a startling new study that involved research on both sides of the Atlantic, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in Florida and the University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology in England have shown ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 26, 2010 |
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The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells
Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
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