Articles about "prions"
Mad Cow Disease - What You Need to Know
Simply put, prions are proteins that can cause disease. ... People who get a disease from exposure to the prion develop a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/a/aa122703a.htm
You and Your Cat and Mad Cow Disease - Prions
In depth look at Mad Cow Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, written by Eve Riser-Roberts. Lethality of Prions.
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aamadprion.htm
You and Your Cat and Mad Cow Disease
They could be contaminated by a BSE cow and spread the prion to grilled chicken ... Whatever is creating the rogue prions or the disease, it appears to be ...
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aamadconc_2.htm
You and Your Cat and Mad Cow Disease - Causes
The hypothesis is that proteins, called prions, present in nerve tissue can be turned into ... How much of the prion does it take to cause the disease? ...
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aamadcause.htm
Prion Definition - Chemistry
Prion Definition - Chemistry. ... Like viruses, prions are not capable of reproduction by themselves. Unlike viruses, prions do not contain genetic material ...
http://chemistry.about.com/library/glossary/bldef7010.htm
Mad Cow Disease - What You Need to Know - Bovine Spongiform ...
Eve Riser-Robert, Ph.D. - What Is Causing the Disease - Introduces prions and explains modes of encephalopathy transmission. ...
http://chemistry.about.com/od/madcowdisease/Mad_Cow_Disease_Bovine_Spongiform_Encephalopathy.htm
You and Your Cat and Mad Cow Disease - References
(54) John Collinge, et al., “Molecular Analysis of Prion Strain Variation and the Aetiology of ‘New Variant’ CJD,” nature, no. 383 (Oct. 24, 1996) p. 685. ...
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aamadrefs_3.htm
You and Your Cat and Mad Cow Disease - Controversy
Published scientific studies have shown that the prion can also be present in many other tissues, including muscle (i.e., steak) (53) and blood (12), bone, ...
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aamadfuss1_4.htm
You and Your Cat and Mad Cow Disease - Controversy
If only downer cattle are tested for BSE the prion would be missed in cows that appear ... It was originally believed that the prion protein thought to be ...
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aamadfuss1_3.htm
Rare Diseases News Briefs 9/16/01
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working with yeast, have made the startling finding that the presence of one prion protein can spark ...
http://rarediseases.about.com/library/weekly/blnews091601.htm
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