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What is the treatment for prion disease?
There is no known effective treatment to arrest or cure prion diseases. Treatment focuses on alleviating the patient's symptoms, increasing their comfort, and palliative care.
What is Secondary structure of prion proteins in prion disease like Creutz feldt-Jakob disease (CJD)?
Secondary structure of prion proteins in prion disease like Creutz feldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is
How serious is prion disease?
All prion diseases are inevitably fatal; there are no known cures.
How do people get sporadic prion disease?
Patients with sporadic prion diseases may have a susceptibility polymorphism in their PRNP gene, and may have spontaneous mutations forming prion proteins.
What organic molecule is a prion?
A prion is a misfolded protein that fosters misfolding in other normal proteins, thereby resulting in disease.
What is the treatment for prion disease?
There is no known effective treatment to arrest or cure prion diseases. Treatment focuses on alleviating the patient's symptoms, increasing their comfort, and palliative care.
What is Secondary structure of prion proteins in prion disease like Creutz feldt-Jakob disease (CJD)?
Secondary structure of prion proteins in prion disease like Creutz feldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is
How serious is prion disease?
All prion diseases are inevitably fatal; there are no known cures.
What is a well known prion disease?
There are multiple prion diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow disease."
Nonliving particle that causes disease?
A prion.
Which of these causes mad cow disease?
prion
How do people get sporadic prion disease?
Patients with sporadic prion diseases may have a susceptibility polymorphism in their PRNP gene, and may have spontaneous mutations forming prion proteins.
What organic molecule is a prion?
A prion is a misfolded protein that fosters misfolding in other normal proteins, thereby resulting in disease.
What is a hereditary form of prion disease?
Prion diseases can also be hereditary, as seen in some cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS).
Is chronic wasting disease a virus?
NO. It is caused by a PRION, not a virus.
A disease causing particle made of RNA without a capsid is called?
A Prion. It transmits a mis-folded protein state, and replicates by causing the host's proteins to replicate into its mis-folded pattern. Mad Cow disease is an example of a prion.
What is the scientific name of the pathogen that causes mad cow disease?
A prion.
