Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

start of lab on the due date! Article Questions 1. What is the name of your article? The name of my article is called Detecting Mad Cow Disease by Stanley B. Prusiner. 2. What is the disease in your article? The disease in my article is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease(CJD). 3. What type of organism causes the disease? The type of organism causes the disease is called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). 4. What is the causative agent (genus and species?)ki The causative agent, it's

neurodegenerative diseases (eg: Alzheimer disease, Pick disease, dementia with Lewy bodies), vascular diseases (eg: multi-infarct dementia, Binswanger disease), endocrine disorders (eg: diabetes, thyroid disease), vitamin deficiencies (eg: B12, thiamine), systemic diseases (eg: respiratory diseases, anemia), other neurologic disorders (eg: normal pressure hydrocephalus, head injury, tumors, multiple sclerosis), and infections (eg: syphilis, encephalitis, HIV, Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease). Approximately

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by a unique infectious agent called prion. It is neither a virus or bacteria and is not even a living organism but purely a protein that infects the brain causing neuro-degradation and eventually death. CJD is the human disorder from a family of prion diseases which have also been found in animals such as sheep called Scrapie Disease, cattle known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, and deer named Chronic Wasting Disease

Kuru is an infectious disease that attacks the central and peripheral nervous system. The pathogen itself is a prion protein, which is found commonly throughout the body and is usually anchored to the cell membrane of cells, with the highest concentration in the nervous system. These proteins are made from amino acids and are coiled into certain structures depending on their job. These harmless proteins only become a problem when they change their structure, whether by infection or mutation, and

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encephalopathy is the scientific name for the disease commonly referred to as mad cow disease (MCD). (WebMD, LLC, 2015) MCD gets its name because when a cow has this disease it stumbles around and even gets demented or mad. (Chris Woolston, 2015) This disease effects the central nervous system, mainly the brain of an adult cow. An abnormal protein called prion is thought to kill the brain cells and create small holes in the brain tissue. MCD is a disease that progresses very slowly and is fatal. (WebMD

The word BSE is short but it stands for a disease with a long name, bovine spongiform encephalopathy. "Bovine" means that the disease affects cows, "spongiform" refers to the way the brain from a sick cow looks spongy under a microscope, and "encephalopathy" indicates that it is a disease of the brain. BSE is a progressive neurologic disease of cows. Research shows that the first probable cases of BSE in cows occurred during the 1970 's with two cases of BSE being identified in 1986. BSE possibly

nature, Dementia is a syndrome where there is a deterioration in one’s cognitive function. Which is dramatically greater than normal cognitive deterioration expected from normal aging. It is caused by a variety of diseases and injuries that affect the brain, such as a stroke or Alzheimer’s disease, 60-70% of cases are contributed to Alzheimer’s. Dementia affects memory, comprehension, calculation, language, judgment, thinking, and learning capacity. This is devastating on the person affected and also the

between dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is that Alzheimer’s is degenerative and irreversible at this time. According to the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's disease accounts for 50-70 percent of cases of dementia (Sahyouni et al, 2017). However, there are other disorders that cause dementia such as Vascular dementia, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, dementia with Lewy Bodies and Frontotemporal dementia. In the early stages of many of these disease there are obvious differences

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