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Study Sheds Light On Age-Related Changes Of Prion Diseases
April 26, 2005 — In a laboratory study, a mutant prion protein was found to assume its normal shape in the cell, but after it was unfolded it failed to return to its normal shape. This may explain why a prion ... > full story -
Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-Species Prion Infection
April 24, 2005 — Although prions from one species rarely infect other species, researchers suspected that the species barrier is overcome when prions in the two species share a certain level of genetic sequence ... > full story -
Diagnosis Of Prions In Patients Should Utilize Novel Strategy, Team Says
February 22, 2005 — A technique for detecting prions in tissue, developed in recent years by UCSF scientists, is significantly more sensitive than the diagnostic procedures currently used to detect the lethal particles ... > full story -
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Test Could Improve Detection Of Prion Disease In Humans
February 17, 2005 — A highly sensitive post-mortem test could help scientists more accurately determine if a person died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a human neurological disorder caused by the same class of ... > full story -
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Diffusion-Weighted MRI Can Diagnose 'Mad Cow'-Related Disease In Humans Before Symptoms Show
February 5, 2005 — Diffusion-weighted MRI is "extremely useful" in detecting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a close cousin of "mad cow" disease, very early in its progression--even before the onset of ... > full story -
Infectious Agent Linked To Mad Cow Disease Found In Organs Other Than The Brain
February 5, 2005 — Prions, infectious proteins associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease, were previously thought to accumulate mainly in the brain, but Yale and University of Zurich ... > full story -
Doctors Need To Prepare For Blood Shortages Now
February 4, 2005 — Doctors need to prepare for shortages in the supply of blood for transfusion, warns an expert in this week's British Medical ... > full story -
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Huntington's Disease
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Blocking Cell Suicide Switch Fails To Stop Prion Damage In Mouse Brains
January 10, 2005 — Researchers knew that prions, the misfolded proteins that cause mad cow disease and other brain disorders, were killing off a class of important brain cells in a transgenic mouse model. But when they ... > full story -
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New Study Shows How Mad Cow Prions Hitch A Ride Into Intestine
December 20, 2004 — A new study from the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine shows that the infectious version of prion proteins, the main culprits behind the human form of mad ... > full story -
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Amyloid Fibers Sprout One Step At A Time
September 21, 2004 — Researchers have combined sophisticated biochemical and imaging techniques to get a glimpse of the stepwise assembly of amyloid fibers in a yeast prion protein. Their findings suggest that these ... > full story
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