Most Viewed Prion Current Events | Prion News
|
|
|
Sort By:
Relevance | Date |
Protein involved in mad cow disease
This study, published in Brain Research, is an addition to the work of the Department of Pathological Histology and Anatomy at the University of Navarra regarding the manner in which prions enter the digestive tube of bovine animals, from which organ they enter the central nervous system, causing the mad cow disease or bovine spongiform... view more... (2005-10-19)
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease is devoted to metal ions and neurodegenerative diseases
The recent issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (Volume 8, Issue 2) published by IOS Press is devoted to "Metal Ions and Neurodegenerative Diseases" and presents a collection of important papers dedicated to uncovering the role of various metals in human neurophysiology and neurodegenerative disorders. view more (2006-01-13)
Mad-cow culprit maintains stem cells
What do mad cow disease and stem cell research have in common? Whitehead Institute scientists have found that the same protein that causes neurodegenerative conditions such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is also important for helping certain adult stem cells maintain themselves. view more (2006-01-31)
Deadly infectious entity of prions discovered
The mysterious, highly infectious prions, which cause the severe destruction of the brain that characterizes "mad cow disease" and several human brain degenerative disorders, can be rendered harmless in the laboratory by a slight alternation of the three-dimensional conformation or shape of the prion protein's structure. view more (2005-06-10)
Mad cow protein aids creation of brain cells
Few conditions are more detrimental to human brains than the one popularly referred to as mad cow disease. view more (2006-02-14)
Cell cultures can sort out Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and scrapie infectious agents
Research in Japan and at Yale University School of Medicine shows that infection with a weak strain of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) prevents infection by more virulent strains and that the protection requires persistent replication by the infectious agent, but not misfolded prions. view more (2005-10-21)
NIAID scientists characterize the most infectious prion protein particles
A new study of prions-apparently malformed proteins that initiate deadly brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans-has yielded surprising information about how the size of prions relates to their infectivity. view more (2005-09-08)
Mad cow proteins successfully detected in blood
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have found a way to detect in blood the malformed proteins that cause "mad cow disease," the first time such "prions" have been detected biochemically in blood. view more (2005-08-29)
Microbiology Today: Discovering the secrets of extraordinary life forms
Not long ago, the discovery of viruses revolutionized our thinking about the lower limits of microscopic life. Now even small strands of RNA are found to be infectious in plants, and proteins are believed to cross the species barrier and cause brain disease. In the November 2000 issue of Microbiology Today Nicola Spence and Dez Barbara of... view more... (2000-11-13)
Compound in wine reduces levels of Alzheimer's disease-causing peptides
A study published in the November 11 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that resveratrol, a compound found in grapes and red wine, lowers the levels of the amyloid-beta peptides which cause the telltale senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease. view more (2005-11-04)
Studies validating performance of Pall prion reduction technology presented at AABB
Prion diseases, such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease, are of growing concern to blood services worldwide because of the potential for transmission through transfusion from asymptomatic donors. view more (2005-10-18)
History of human cannibalism eats away at researchers
In a new study published by the journal Genome Research, a team of scientists reports that 'mad cow'-like diseases have not been a major force in human history, nor have been cannibalistic rituals that are known to be associated with disease transmission. view more (2006-01-04)
Successful cell engineering may lead to mad cow prevention, say researchers
Researchers at Texas A&M University have successfully "knocked down" the expression of possible disease-causing genes in a cloned goat fetus, perhaps paving the way for breeding disease resistance in other animals, even those genes that might cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. view more (2006-03-23)
Prion disease infectivity causes heart damage in mouse study
Laboratory mice infected with the agent of scrapie—a brain-wasting disease of sheep—show high levels of the scrapie agent in their heart several hundred days after being infected in the brain, indicating that heart infection might be a new aspect of this disease. view more (2006-07-07)
Brittle prions are more infectious
Brittleness is often seen as a sign of fragility. But in the case of infectious proteins called prions, brittleness makes for a tougher, more menacing pathogen. view more (2006-06-29)
Emerging Infectious Diseases Of Wildlife - Microbiology Today: November 2003 issue
Wildlife is an important source of diseases that are a risk to the health of man and his domesticated stock. This was very clearly demonstrated earlier this year when the masked palm civet was implicated as a possible wild animal source for the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus. In the November 2003 issue of Microbiology Today... view more... (2003-10-28)
Soil-bound prions that cause CWD remain infectious
Scientists have confirmed that prions, the mysterious proteins thought to cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, latch on tightly to certain minerals in soil and remain infectious. view more (2006-04-14)
Prion disease agent causes heart damage in mouse study
These findings raise the possibility that heart infection could be a new aspect of prion diseases, including those that affect humans and livestock, and that these diseases could travel through the blood. view more (2006-07-10)
Blocking nerve cells delays onset of prion disease
A chemical that specifically blocking parts of the nervous system can delay the onset of scrapie and could lead to new drugs to prevent vCJD and BSE, medical experts heard today (Thursday 10 January 2002) during a joint meeting of the European Societies of Clinical and Veterinary Virology and the Society for General Microbiology at the Royal... view more... (2001-12-21)
Scientists identify prion's infectious secret
Researchers have known for decades that certain neurodegenerative diseases, such as mad cow disease or its human equivalent, Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease, result from a kind of infectious protein called a prion. view more (2007-05-10)
|
|
|
|
Sort By:
Relevance | Date |
|
