prion in English

noun
1
a small petrel of southern seas, having a wide bill fringed with comblike plates for feeding on planktonic crustaceans.
In addition to the wandering, we also were entranced by royal and shy albatrosses, as well as Cape and giant petrels, fairy prions and fluttering shearwaters.
2
a protein particle that is believed to be the cause of brain diseases such as BSE, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Prions are not visible microscopically, contain no nucleic acid, and are highly resistant to destruction.
Twisted forms of brain proteins called prions spread the disease, making normal proteins misfold.

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1. There are three human prion diseases and four main prion diseases of animals.

2. Methods for the detection and treatment of aberrant prion disease

3. Much prion type diseases can be caused by cannibalism.

4. Prion diseases affect the brains of a number of mammals, including humans.

5. The current system for detecting infectious prion particles is not very sensitive.

6. CONCLUSION It is concluded that prion protein has a heterophilic binding.

7. At the forefront of Antisense prion research is a married couple

8. So drugs that prevent this amyloid – prion coupling could be a potent weapon against Alzheimer's.

9. Last week, a Pima County grand jury indicted Prion, charging he killed Vicari.

10. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the Aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD.

11. Method for detection or measurement of abnormal prion protein involved in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

12. We should transform the traditional medical thinking model to research the mystery of prion.

13. What is even more peculiar : exactly the same prion proteins occur in healthy animals.

14. The malformed prion proteins can be deposited in the brain, thereby destroying brain tissue.

15. MeSH scope note: A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cattle associated with abnormal prion proteins in the brain.

16. When he added an anti - prion drug to the mix, though, the virus production halted.

17. However, abnormal prion protein was detected in the recipient’s lymphoid tissues, indicating transmission of infection from an asymptomatic individual.

18. After purification and refoldation of the recombinant OvPrPC, conformational changes of ovine prion protein was triggered by thermal denaturation.

19. A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold Abnormally

20. Prusiner warned that prion proteins could jump from one species to another, a controversial theory now gaining acceptance.

21. There were examples of prion diseases, but the ones that afflicted humans were so rare as to be medical oddities.

22. Antisense treatments are also being investigated for prion disorders, which involve toxic proteins that wreak havoc on the brain

23. Prusiner, by the way, is the one central character in the prion saga whom Rhodes was unable to interview.

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

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

26. Bse (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion

27. 29 Accumulating data indicate that heterozygosity at codon 129 plays an important part in the phenotypic expression of familial prion diseases.

28. 'Our results establish the first animal model of a genetic prion disease recapitulating cognitive, motor, and neurophysiological abnormalities of the human disorder,' explained Dr Chiesa.

29. Bse (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion

30. "My wife gave me too much pillow talk to persuade me taking briberies, "regretted the former mayor who has been put into prion.

31. The risk of adnexal torsion, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), thrombosis and embolism, epigenetic alterations, prion transmission via urinary gonadotrophins and cancer are summarized and discussed.

32. Abnormal prion protein deposits with high seeding activities in the skeletal muscle, femoral nerve, and scalp of an Autopsied case of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

33. Pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of a prion disease containing an active ingredient in the form of the prnp gene using recombinant adenovirus vector

34. Disclosed is a method for the pre-treatment of a sample for detecting or measuring an abnormal prion protein (PrPres) involved in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE).

35. 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).

36. 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).

37. 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.

38. Renaturation of a completely denatured prion to infectious status has not yet been achieved; however, partially denatured prions can be renatured to an infective status under certain artificial conditions.

39. The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of a prion disease containing an active ingredient in the form of the Prnp gene using a recombinant adenovirus vector.

40. Consequently, The Prnp gene transfection system using a recombinant adenovirus vector according to the present invention protects nerve cells by suppressing PrPSc-mediated nerve cell death, and thus can be used to advantage in the prevention or treatment of prion diseases.

41. Amyloid proteins, mainly including amyloid-β peptides, prion proteins, α-synuclein, copper/zinc superoxide dismutase, as well as the bacterial protein RepA, are characterized by the deposition in a variety of tissues or cells as aggregated species (Amyloids or insoluble deposits or inclusions) that share a distinctive β-sheet-rich fibrillar ultrastructure.

42. Amyloid proteins, mainly including Amyloid-β peptides, prion proteins, α-synuclein, copper/zinc superoxide dismutase, as well as the bacterial protein RepA, are characterized by the deposition in a variety of tissues or cells as aggregated species (Amyloids or insoluble deposits or inclusions) that share a distinctive β-sheet-rich fibrillar ultrastructure.