CLEVELAND, April 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists said they are a step closer to understanding how rogue proteins can move between species and cause deadly diseases.
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IThe scientists
Mulberry tasker, from Case Western Reserve University, said their research may help explain how humans develop variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after eating mad-cow-disease-infected meat.
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IUntil now, researchers did not understand how the proteins, called prions, from one species could breach the defenses of another. But the scientists said they have found a way for the prions to take on some characteristics of the "victim" species and sneak in
Canada goose billigt, BBC News Online reported Friday.
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IThey managed to introduce a tiny number of fibers from a hamster prion into a mouse prion, creating a new prion strain able to latch back onto hamster prions.
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IThe scientists said this might be the way prion diseases jump from one species to another.
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IPrion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs, are a group of infectious neurodegenerative disorders. Along with vCJD in humans and mad cow disease, it includes chronic wasting disease in deer and elk
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