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Article: Prion-disease vaccine shown to be effective in ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... vaccine designed to prevent prion disease warded off symptoms in mice ... examined, no evidence of prion disease was found, said lead researcher ... of the mice for signs of prion disease. She said mice such as ... study. Copyright 2007, Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights ...

Article: Researchers from University of Bologna publish findings in ...
Biotech Week;  October 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... diagnostic markers in clinically sporadic prion disease: a combined brain magnetic resonance ... Italy, "The intra vitam diagnosis of prion disease is challenging and a definite diagnosis ... increasing importance in the diagnosis of prion disease." "The aim of this study was to ...

Article: Reports outline prion disease prevention study ...
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  August 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... survival in a mouse model of human prion disease,' are detailed in a study published ... and human postmortem studies, of prion disease have demonstrated the presence of heightened ... plays a salient pathogenic role in prion disease, it remains possible that oxidative ...

Article: Prying into Prion Secrets Protein-Only Theory of Prion ...
BIOWORLD Today;  August 31, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... as-yet unidentified virus behind prion disease. (See BioWorld Today, Nov 10, 2005 ... of Neuron, a new mouse model of the prion disease fatal familial insomnia provides critical ... mice that were susceptible to a human prion disease, but not mouse prion diseases, they ...

Article: POSSIBLE NEW TREATMENT FOR PRION DISEASE
United Press International;  July 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 00-0000 Possible new treatment for prion disease MUNICH, Germany, Jul 18, 2002 ... that increased survival for mice with prion disease, which could offer hope for treating ... immune system to inoculate mice against prion disease. In the study, 24 healthy mice were ...

Article: Human prion disease and relative risk associated ...
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The transmission of the prion disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... chronic wasting disease (CWD), a prion disease of deer and elk. In 7 Colorado ... rates of death from the human prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...

Article: Study findings on prion disease are outlined in ...
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  November 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... and lipoxidation of brain proteins in prion disease,' have been published. According ... pathological changes that unfold in prion disease remain elusive. A key role of increased ... the prion protein that accumulates in prion disease, was itself shown to be a target of ...