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(Encyclopedia)prion prēˈŏn [key], abnormal form of a protein found in mammals, now generally believed to cause a group of diseases known as prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which are ...kuru
(Encyclopedia)kuru: see prion.scrapie
(Encyclopedia)scrapie: see prion.Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(Encyclopedia)Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: see prion. ...chronic wasting disease
(Encyclopedia)chronic wasting disease: see prion. ...mad cow disease
(Encyclopedia)mad cow disease: see prion.bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(Encyclopedia)bovine spongiform encephalopathy: see prion. ...slow virus
(Encyclopedia)slow virus, technically a virus, such as a lentivirus, that causes symptoms in an infected host long after the original infection and progresses slowly. Although many viruses fit this description, the...Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton
(Encyclopedia)Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton gīdˈəshĕkˌ [key], 1923–2008, American virologist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., grad. Univ. of Rochester; M.D. Harvard, 1945. He worked in the United States, Iran, Australia, and ...Prusiner, Stanley Ben
(Encyclopedia)Prusiner, Stanley Ben, 1942–, American neurologist, b. Des Moines, Iowa, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1968. Prusiner has been a professor at the Univ. of California, San Francisco ...Browse by Subject
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