Prion Essays

The book “The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and other Deadly Prion Diseases” by Philip Yam skillfully describes all of the ailments that patients mysteriously suffered while doctors and researchers struggled to find a solution. The illnesses that all of these patients suffered from were transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which cause the patients to have small holes in their brains to the point where their brains resemble sponges. Philip Yam was once a news editor

The Importance of Providing Oral Care Brushing your teeth, how do you feel when you brush your teeth? When you wake up in the morning what is your routine, get up use the restroom, brush your teeth, and then go on about getting ready for the day? How would you feel if you couldn’t brush your teeth whither it be because you don’t have access to a toothbrush or toothpaste, or what if you couldn’t even remember to brush your teeth in the morning or evenings? When you don’t brush your teeth you feel

Have you ever enjoyed having a juicy hamburger? What about a carne asada taco? Let me tell you what could happen if you eat diseased cow meat also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. Mad Cow disease is a brain disorder in a cow that is spreaded by someone eating through a diseased meat. When someone is infected with Mad Cow Disease they get a disorder that if formally called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Creutzfedt-Jakob disease would cause the human to have demtia and possible death. Its a very

. MONITORING THEILERIA ON THE BASIS OF MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION 3.1 Introduction Theileria is a vector borne protozoan parasite that causes theileriosis which is a fatal disease for cows. It is a disease of tropics. Theileria poses a serious challenge to the exotic crossbred cattle population. T.annulata and T. parva are considered to be the most pathogenic species of theileria. Tropical theileriosis is one of the most prevalent diseases of cattle caused by T. annulata. It is

SPECIFIC PURPOSE To persuade my audience to become organ donors as a mean to help stop the crime of organ trafficking. INTRODUCTION Pretend there is something you really want. Pretend it is something that you simply can’t live without. You’ll probably be picturing a mobile phone, an iPad, a car perhaps… something that you depend on in your daily lives, and had become, along the years, an important part of you that you just can’t let go off. Wang, a Chinese teenager isn’t that different;

New Guinea. Until the 1950’s they practiced a bizarre funeral ritual which involved consuming human brains. This cannibalistic behavior lead to members of the tribe getting a disease called Kuru. Kuru is a brain disease that is caused by infections Prions in the brain. The disease works by creating lesions in the brain and causing degradation, it is a fatal disease. When the tribe stopped this ritual in the 1950’s Kuru killed nearly two percent of the population annually. Researchers discovered that

Abstract The CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) is a fatal and irredeemable neurological human disease. It is a Mad Cow Disease found in humans. It is thought to originate from the mutation of normal prion protein. This article discusses the brief history of Mad Cow disease, some places in which the Mad Cow disease has been identified, the transmission of Mad Cow to humans. It also addresses the signs, symptoms, causes and treatments of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and it concludes with the diagnosis

The following is my report of a patient, Mrs. Smith, who I examined this afternoon: Symptoms Mrs. Smith told me she was born in New Guinea and has been living in the United States for the past twenty-five years. She has had no major health problems noted in her history, and prior to her recent medical issues she has maintained good health. She came in presenting common symptoms of some type of neurological disorder. She had trouble walking, and she told me that her coordination was diminishing.

Mad cow disease is a rare but deadly disease that is obtained by cows from contamination feeding or activation of prions. Once this disease spreads to human, the situation gets about ten times worse. The human version of BSE (Mad cow disease) is called vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). This disease destroys the brain and will kill you if you leave it alone. You can get vCJD just by eating beef from a cow that had the disease. This is super rare to find in America and its only ever happened

Alzheimer's, although Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease advances more rapidly.  Symptoms can include memory loss, anxiety, complications controlling body movements, dementia, and personality changes.  CJD is caused by a prion protein. A prion is neither a bacteria or a virus.  The expansion of prions on the brain cells conclusively result in brain damage and even death.

disorder, which is derived from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by prions. Prions occur in a normal state, which are harmless proteins found in the body’s cells, and also in an infectious form that causes disease. Harmless forms of prion proteins have the same sequence of amino acids, but the infectious forms of protein have a different folded shape than normal proteins. Once the abnormal protein prion appears they aggregate together, giving the brain a spongy appearance, characterized

While a mutation in the DNA sequence can result in variation in the genotype so does epigenetic effects such as prions, DNA methylation, RNAi, and many more which do not change the nucleotide sequence of DNA but still affects the genetic variation. Natural selection does act upon mutation in the DNA but the effect of the environment and the epigenetic response to

All humans mourn their dead, but our ways of doing so can vary. Some even took it as far as eating the brains of family members that have passed away. Deep in New Guinea the, Fore tribe had a burial ritual that allowed them to eat brains. Women and children handled and prepared the brain for consumption. The Fore tribe did not know that the ritual was dangerous until an American physician by the name of Carleton Gajdusek discovered a flaw in the ritual. The brains the Fore tribe were eating were

This disease affect to the mammals like; sheep, cow, and deer. The most common form of the human prion disease is sporadic, is also called Gertsmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), kuru and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) (Holman, et al.,2010). All forms of HPD caused

Neuroscience event at the University of Michigan. Poster presentations focused on a link between prion-based disease mechanisms and the similar findings in aberrant protein distribution in neurodegenerative disorders. I utilized information from research to illuminate the idea that is gaining recognition in the scientific community; neurodegenerative disorders are displaying similar characteristics to viral prions. The Cell and Molecular Biology program at GVSU provides students with the necessary knowledge

I found that Mathiesen’s argument about how prison does not rehabilitate individual quite compelling. Prisons were supposed to help rehabilitate individuals but instead it became a place to hold inmates, where rehabilitation is not a priority. Mathiesen explains how there are no proper resources available for inmates when it comes to helping them reintegrate into society (Mathiesen, 2006, pg. 28). The idea of rehabilitation was to help the individual be restored to person they were before the fact

this was the discussion of the brutality and discrimination African Americans face when it comes to the American justice system. While still bouncing off those two main topics, the documentary begins to discuss about what life is like inside jails/prions and the problems former felons deal with once released from prison. Finally, the documentary discusses about what

His explanation on the concept of an “anti-prison”, described three main points. It focused on an institute designed around education, rehabilitation, and the improvement of prisoners. The “anti-prion” was created to educate offenders on how to properly function as law abiding citizen. I believe Gilligan’s idea of an “anti-prison” would help push society in the right direction. A direction that would guide the misguided and hopefully deter them

The last chapter starts with the criminal Wes. The beginning of the chapter is a story about how Wes, Tony and other two men committed a crime. Wes’ mother Mary was shocked, when she heard the news about jewelry store robbery by four masked men; at that moment she even did not know how much this news would change her life. One of the robbers shot a veteran of police department, because of this police officers were incredibly interested to catch them. A break in the case came really quickly, because

Stanford Prison Experiment is unethical for a plethora of reasons. First, the selection of guards, none of them have any prior training in correctional duties. Consequently, you can see the guards using Nazi strategies to enforce their version of prions standards. Second, the chain that is constantly attached to the inmate’s ankle to reinforce that there is no escape. Now, in real prisons guards are only allowed to connect items such as full body restraints, spit guards, mouth guards, wrist restraints