A fatal disease is spreading amongst Alberta's deer population. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a brain disease that affects ...

Newly emergent prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), and chronic wasting disease are a source of critical concern to physicians ...

“The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease transmitting ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

Prion diseases are characterized by abnormal folding of the host’s naturally-occurring prion protein, leading to rapid neurodegeneration. They can be genetic, sporadic—without known cause—or acquired, ...

CWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...

Aside from testing and surveilling prion disease, an additional aim is to provide accurate information regarding this disease through various outreach efforts. To convey information about prion ...

In TSEs the normal cellular prion protein (PrP C) is transformed into an infectious disease-associated isoform, PrP Sc — a potential target for immunotherapy. In the March 6 Nature, Anthony R. White ...

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The center is supported by the CDC and sponsored by the American Association of Neuropathologists. The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in ...

Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are characterised by toxic clumps of faulty proteins. Some rare forms of dementia, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are caused by a type of ...