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Prion Diseases

Prion Diseases. Presentation, Epidemiology, Guidance and Management. Welcome to this module on Prion Disease. These are a group of rare progressive neurodegenerative diseases that can affect both humans and animals. Overview. How to Use this Module? Learning Outcomes Prion Disease

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Prion Diseases

Prion Diseases. Presentation, Epidemiology, Guidance and Management. Welcome to this module on Prion Disease. These are a group of rare progressive neurodegenerative diseases that can affect both humans and animals. Overview. How to Use this Module? Learning Outcomes Prion Disease

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Outline for Brain Injury and Recovery Lectures

Outline for Brain Injury and Recovery Lectures. Who studies/treats this? Ways that the NS can be damaged What happens after injury and are there ways for neuronal circuits to recover?. Who studies and treats brain disorders?. Clinical neuropsychologists Neurologists Neurosurgeons

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CNS

CNS. CNS. Normal Neurons Glia Astrocytes Oligodendrocytes Ependymal Cells Microglia Pathology (13 Questions). Classical Disease Patterns. Degenerative Inflammatory Neoplastic Blood. 1) What are general patterns of CNS cell pathology?

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CJD 2007 November 5-6, Vancouver, BC

CJD 2007 November 5-6, Vancouver, BC. Presented in Partnership by:. CJD 2007: Creutzfeldt-Jakob and other Prion Diseases Surveillance, Diagnosis and Treatment. Held at the Fairmont Waterfront Inaugural year Approx. 50 delegates 14 Speakers 5 Posters. Aims and Objectives.

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Plasma Exchange

Plasma Exchange. Chan King Chung. History. Begins in the 1970s Blood cell separators Initially to treat anti-GBM disease Lowering circulating antibody Widespread use in different condition Some indication replaced by other method Selective extraction for hypercholesterolemia

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An Introduction to Bio-Ontologies

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Prions Genetic Polymorphism & Susceptibility

Prions Genetic Polymorphism & Susceptibility. Carlos Francisco Mendoza. Human Prion Diseases. Comparison of Prp C and Prp Sc. Evidence Supports the Prion Hypothesis. Genetic Polymorphism. RPSA Polymorphisms have no direct influence on susceptibility to sporadic CJD. Susceptibility.

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human prion diseases Learning Objectives Overview Introduction Subtypes Clinical Features

Human Prion Diseases Tom Webb Tom Webb is a specialist registrar in neurology in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Having completed an MD(Res) research degree at the MRC Prion Unit, Queen Square, London, he maintains an interest in this area as well as cognitive neurology and stroke medicine.

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Case Study- Prions

Case Study- Prions. Group #17 William K. Vincent Sonia Morales. Prion Structure:. http://www.prions.com/prions.jpg. Prion Diseases. Known collectively as spongiform encephalopathies. No nucleic acid genome. Examples: Kuru Scrapie BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)

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General Background on Prions

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PRIONS

PRIONS. 221. PRIONS. Infectious agent made of proteins WHICH ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH A NUCLEIC ACID Infect by folding and unfolding into irregular conformations The abnormally folded molecule is able to convert proteins into correctly folded form This process perpetuates the infection.

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Deer Life

Deer Life. By: Denis Hoppe. CWD. Chronic Wasting Disease A fatal nervous system disease Known to infect white-tail deer, mule deer, elk, and moose. Without appropriate management where CWD has been detected, the disease will spread to other areas of the state.

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How do prions cause mad cow disease

How do prions cause mad cow disease. Group #5. Intro. Wendy Carrillo. What is a prion? They are not viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites. A protein particle that lacks nucleic acid and is sometimes held to be the cause of various infectious diseases of the nervous system e.g. scrappie.

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Prion Disease: Causes, Symptoms, Daignosis, Prevention and Treatment

Prion Disease is a disease in which a kind of protein that triggers normal proteins in the brain and makes it to fold abnormally.

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From BSE t o Prion

From BSE t o Prion. Prion: An infectious proteinaceous particle of nonnucleic acid composition. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE ) mad-cow diseas e. Prion protein (PrP) : from PrP C to PrP S c. Same amino acid sequences but different structures. PrP S c (scrapie prion protein)

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