Mammalian transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion) and amyloid diseases seem to involve the self-propagation of abnormal fibrillar or sub-fibrillar protein aggregates. Similar processes explain ...

European Commission which issued a guidance on minimizing the risk of transmitting animal spongiform encephalopathy agents via human and veterinary medicinal products (EMA/410/01 rev.3) (2011/C 73/01) ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are mammalian neurodegenerative disorders characterized by a posttranslational conversion and brain accumulation of an insoluble, ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion disease is triggered by the conversion from cellular prion protein to pathogenic prion protein. Notably, C-transmembrane form of prion protein and ...

Prions represent a new class of infectious agents which propagate on a protein-only level, not requiring agent-encoded nucleic acids. Newly emergent prion diseases such as bovine spongiform ...

Agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) usually enter the body via a peripheral route and replicate in lymphoreticular tissues before moving into the brain. Any impairment of the ...

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Just as the state agency charged with wildlife management released its proposed hunting and fishing rule changes for next year, including one to protect the health of North Carolina’s deer herd from a ...