What is Prion diseases?

What is Prion diseases?

• Prion diseases: Various diseases caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain.
• Prion diseases: Small proteinaceous infectious particles which resist inactivation by procedures that modify NUCLEIC ACIDS and contain an abnormal isoform of a cellular protein which is a major and necessary component. The abnormal (scrapie) isoform is PrPSc (PRPSC PROTEINS) and the cellular isoform PrPC (PRPC PROTEINS). The primary amino acid sequence of the two isoforms is identical. Human diseases caused by prions include CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER SYNDROME; and INSOMNIA, FATAL FAMILIAL.
  Source - Diseases Database

Prion diseases: Introduction

Types of Prion diseases:

Types of Prion diseases:

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• Variant CJD
• Kuru
• Fatal familial insomnia
• Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - mad cow disease, animal-only
• Scrapie - sheep and goats, animal-only
• Mink encephalopathy - in minks, animal-only
• Feline encephalopathy - in cats, animal-only
• Feline spongiform encephalopathy - affecting cats.
• Chronic wasting disease (CWD) - affecting mule deer and elk (i.e. animals only)
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of mule deer and elk
• Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME)
• more types...»

Broader types of Prion diseases:

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How serious is Prion diseases?

Complications of Prion diseases: see complications of Prion diseases

What causes Prion diseases?

Causes of Prion diseases: see causes of Prion diseases

What are the symptoms of Prion diseases?

Symptoms of Prion diseases: see symptoms of Prion diseases

Complications of Prion diseases: see complications of Prion diseases

Can anyone else get Prion diseases?

More information: see contagiousness of Prion diseases

Prion diseases: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Prion diseases.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Prion diseases.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Prion diseases: see treatments for Prion diseases
Research for Prion diseases: see research for Prion diseases

Name and Aliases of Prion diseases

Main name of condition: Prion diseases

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, TSE

Prions and prion related disease Source - Diseases Database

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Prion diseases:

• Spongioform encephalopathies
• Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
• Variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease
• Gerstmann Straussler Scheinker syndrome
• Fatal familial insomnia
• Kuru

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