prion disease
51Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — also Creutzfeld Jakob disease noun Etymology: Hans G. Creutzfeldt died 1964 German psychiatrist and Alfons M. Jakob died 1931 German psychiatrist Date: 1963 a rare progressive fatal encephalopathy caused by a prion and marked by development of… …
52slow virus disease — A progressive, pathological process caused by a transmissible agent (virus or prion) that remains clinically silent during a prolonged incubation period of months to years after which progressive clinical disease becomes apparent …
53subacute spongiform encephalopathy — prion disease …
54Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy — Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of animals. According to the most widespread hypothesis they are transmitted by prions,… …
55Bovine spongiform encephalopathy — with BSE. A notable feature of such disease is the inability of the infected animal to stand.Source: APHIS] Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease (MCD), is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle, that… …
56Enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob — Enfermedad de Creutzfeldt Jakob …
57David R. Brown (neuroscientist) — David R. Brown David R. Brown Born 7 September 1964 (1964 09 07) …
58PRNP — (PRioN Protein (Creutzfeld Jakob disease, Gerstmann Sträussler Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia)) is a genecite journal | author = Kretzschmar HA, Stowring LE, Westaway D, Stubblebine WH, Prusiner SB, Dearmond SJ | title = Molecular… …
59bovine spongiform encephalopathy — /spun jeuh fawrm / a fatal dementia of cattle, thought to be caused by the prion proteins implicated in Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Also called mad cow disease. * * * ▪ pathology also called mad cow disease a fatal neurodegenerative… …
60Kuru — A slowly progressive fatal disease of the brain due to an infectious agent transmitted among people in Papua New Guinea by ritual cannibalism. Kuru is an infectious form of subacute spongiform encephalopathy. It was once thought to be due to a… …
