This lays the groundwork for a reinvigorated study of prion structure–pathology relationships ... innocuous for humans, whereas BSE prions are highly promiscuous and can cause disease in ...

Changing the structure of PrP alters the incubation ... of CJD in the United Kingdom that are thought to be caused by BSE prions show unique strain characteristics. Those prions have a PrP ...

Jiri Safar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and colleagues found that gene alterations caused mice to express a mutant form of BSE prion, which made the animals resistant when ...

Most scientists believe that BSE is caused by a small agent called a prion. A prion is neither a virus nor a bacterium, but instead is an infectious protein. There are some scientists who say that ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease ... harboring the brain-destroying infectious prions. It used to be that prion diseases were novelties ...

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – or BSE as we came to know it. BSE is a prion disease. Prions are a kind of protein found all over the body but especially in the brain and nervous system.

Among the animal spongiform encephalopathies -- scrapies, transmissible mink encephalopathy, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) -- BSE is certainly the disease that has wreaked the most ...

Prion diseases are difficult to predict, he said, because they involve so many variables. For example, it is still unknown why the new variant form of CJD disease, caused by BSE, is confined to young ...