Similar words: prior, prior to, a priori, priority, prioritize, prioritise, histrionic, chorionic. Meaning: n. (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
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1. There is no direct evidence of the prion hypothesis.
2. There were examples of prion diseases, but the ones that afflicted humans were so rare as to be medical oddities.
3. There are three human prion diseases and four main prion diseases of animals.
4. Prion arguments were consigned to the letters columns of scientific journals.sentencedict.com
5. Last week, a Pima County grand jury indicted Prion, charging he killed Vicari.
6. The current system for detecting infectious prion particles is not very sensitive.
7. Prusiner warned that prion proteins could jump from one species to another, a controversial theory now gaining acceptance.
8. Could RNA interfere with prion disease?
9. Much prion type diseases can be caused by cannibalism.
10. CONCLUSION It is concluded that prion protein has a heterophilic binding.
11. But no variant of prion protein was able to prevent demyelination when introduced specifically into the Schwann cells that surround and support peripheral nerve cells.
12. So drugs that prevent this amyloid – prion coupling could be a potent weapon against Alzheimer's.
13. The malformed prion proteins can be deposited in the brain, thereby destroying brain tissue.
14. Prion diseases affect the brains of a number of mammals, including humans.
15. When he added an anti - prion drug to the mix, though, the virus production halted.
16. Design - Screening study of patients suspected clinically to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other neurodegenerative diseases by prion protein gene analysis.
17. Both patients described were heterozygous for the missense mutation at codon 200 of the prion protein gene.
18. Perhaps gene therapy could prevent the mutation of the prion gene that causes hereditary brain disease.
19. Accumulating data indicate that heterozygosity at codon 129 plays an important part in the phenotypic expression of familial prion diseases.
20. Prusiner, by the way, is the one central character in the prion saga whom Rhodes was unable to interview.
21. Mad cow disease is caused by the misfolding of a small protein called Prion.
22. Complementary DNA (cDNA) sequence of Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus) prion protein (PrP) encoding gene was cloned and characterized through RT-PCR approach.
23. Surgeon or Designee will notify the Operating Room of the brain biopsy of suspected prion disease.
24. He also has a hunch, supported by preliminary data, that prion proteins will turn out to play the same part in supporting myelination in the brain.
25. We should transform the traditional medical thinking model to research the mystery of prion.
26. After purification and refoldation of the recombinant OvPrPC, conformational changes of ovine prion protein was triggered by thermal denaturation.
27. Researchers have also made some headway in treating a human prion disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which today is uniformly fatal.
28. A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cattle associated with abnormal prion proteins in the brain.
29. What is even more peculiar : exactly the same prion proteins occur in healthy animals.
30. "My wife gave me too much pillow talk to persuade me taking briberies, "regretted the former mayor who has been put into prion.
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