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prion protein

  Kuru disease
.... Prusiner 264; Shetty and Steel 1). A unique characteristic common to all these diseases is that they involve aberrant metabolism of the prion protein, and in ....
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Alzheimer's disease
.... plaques. Five deceased members of the family from two generations showed a coexisting beta-amyloid and prion protein pathology. The ....
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Insomnia Sleep Disorder
.... Prion protein conformation in a patient with sporadic fatal insomnia. The New England Journal of Medicine, 340, 1630. Mechcatie, E. (1999, October 15). Sonata. ....
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Patient Profiles
.... neurodegenrative disorders. A slow virus is a mutant or conformationally distinct form of a host protein known as a prion. They have ....
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Biotechnology and Food
.... levels can be grown and used as a staple in areas where protein is scarce .... when cows were fed carelessly sterilized remains of sheep that allowed prion to creep ....
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