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Prion Infectivity Found In White And Brown Fat Tissues Of Mice 1 Citation Prion Infectivity Found In White And Brown Fat Tissues Of Mice ScienceDaily Mon, 12/08/2008 - 10:30 Researchers have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect humans as well as wild and domestic animals., technorati.com
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FDA's Enhanced Feed Ban to Curtail Mad Cow Disease 1 Citation The primary manner in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) is transmitted is through the ingestion of feed that contains contaminated tissue?eg, meat, bone meal, or nervous tissue from an infected animal. Therefore, to reduce the spread of..., technorati.com
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15th (Really 16th) Case of Mad Cow Disease in Canada 1 Citation Yesterday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed another case of the prion-generated disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (aka mad cow disease) since national surveillance began in 1992. The affected animal was a 7-year-old dairy cow from British Columbia, and investigators are currently tracing the..., technorati.com
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Transmitting Prion Diseases In Milk 1 Citation Transmitting Prion Diseases In Milk Friday, November 14, 2008 9:08 Timm Konold and colleagues from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, UK, investigated the transmission of scrapie by feeding milk from scrapie-affected ewes to lambs that are genetically susceptible to contracting scrapie. The researchers were looking for the presence of the prion protein, PrPd, which is associated with the disease. Eighteen lambs were fed milk from scrapie-affected ewes. Three of these lambs were c, technorati.com
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1 Citation You may be wondering what a prion is and why you should care. Well, your ears might perk up a lot if you hear the words - ?Mad Cow Disease?. That disease is caused by a transmissible prion. Prion related diseases have been recognized for years. However, until recently we did not realize what caused them. What , technorati.com
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1 Citation Today I came across a blog written by Patricia Tennant, who lost her father to sCJD in 2007. She has a background in government and politics and she plans to use her experience to further advocacy and legislation for prion diseases. Please check out her blog at: http://cjdadvocacy.blogspot.com del.icio.us Tags: prion diseases , CJD , Creutzfeldt-jakob disease , advocacy , blog , prion, technorati.com
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Cost-effectiveness of BSE interventions in preventing variant CJD 1 Citation A recent article by a group of researchers from the Netherlands, was published on the web entitled, ?The price of the precautionary principle: Cost-effectiveness of BSE intervention strategies in the Netherlands.? They perform an analysis that challenges the ?precautionary principle? in BSE interventions. The precautionary principle is simply defined as a general rule that preventive measures are taken by policy makers in relation to the perceived risk of an activity despite scientific uncer, technorati.com
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Early MRI changes in prion protein gene mutation carriers 1 Citation The utility of diffusion weighted imaging brain scans in detecting certain prion diseases was accentuated by the findings of a report by Lee and colleagues in this month?s issue of Brain . The study included 14 patients with the E200K prion protein mutation who were presymptomatic and 20 patients from the same families without the mutation. A quantified assessment of diffusion weighted neuroimaging found significantly reduced diffusion in the thalamic-striatal network of mutation carriers. , technorati.com
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Prions use tunnels to invade the nervous system 1 Citation In a recent study by Gousset and colleages , prion proteins in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) have been found to invade the central nervous system through the use of tunnelling nanotubes (TNT?s). TNT?s have also been implicated in other transmittable diseases including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) . vCJD is a human prion disease associated with the ingestion of foodstuffs tainted by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Once inside the gut, the prion proteins enter dendrit, technorati.com
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Portland Nutrition Examiner Gets Its Wrong--Mad Cow Disease Is Rare; Does Not Happen "Often" 1 Citation We do not wish to pick on anyone. Over the transom this morning came the work of the ? Portland Nutrition Examiner, ? Kendall Scott. Writing under a headline--- Do you know where your meat and animal products come from? ?she wrote: ?According to former cattle rancher, Howard Lyman , many cattle, animals that were never meant to eat meat, end up being fed their own kind, and this often results in Mad Cow Disease. This food-borne illness can then be passed on to humans eating meat from tho, technorati.com
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