encephalopathies in English

noun
1
a disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
Both mad-cow and mad-deer disease are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies , in which brain proteins called prions deform, forcing other brain cells to degenerate along with them.

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1. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and animal by-products (ABP)

2. Encephalopathies, liver cirrhosis, Afetal alcohol syndrome, and cancer of the aerodigestive tract

3. The extraction process permits testing for the presence of abnormal prion protein, e.g., for diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE).

4. Collectively, diseases that are caused by the abnormal folding of the prion protein are known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs).

5. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) are chronic degenerative nervous diseases characterised by the accumulation of an abnormal isoform of a cellular glycoprotein (known as PrP or prion protein).

6. Ischemia-Anoxias, Brain Ischemia-Anoxias, Cerebral Ischemia-Hypoxia, Brain Ischemia-Hypoxia, Cerebral Ischemia-Hypoxias, Brain Ischemia-Hypoxias, Cerebral Ischemic Hypoxic Encephalopathy Ischemic-Hypoxic Encephalopathies Ischemic-Hypoxic Encephalopathy.

7. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) are chronic degenerative nervous diseases characterised by the accumulation of an abnormal isoform of a cellular glycoprotein known as PrP or prion protein).

8. BSE is one of a number of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) a characteristic of which is the presence of an abnormal form of a protein called a prion.

9. Some subviral particles also cause disease: the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which include Kuru, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), are caused by prions, hepatitis D is due to a satellite virus.