The TSEs, including Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, involve abnormal clumps of protein that accumulate throughout the brain, destroying brain tissue and leaving spongy holes.
It is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system that causes holes in the brain. This disease is untreatable and always ends in death. Prions are the main source of this disease, and only...
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly referred to as mad cow disease) is caused by a prion. This is a normal protein found primarily in the brain and spinal cord of cattle that gets folded...
Mainly though other ruminants eating protein-based feed that contains ground up parts of animal by-products infected with BSE. Other possibilities include genetics, as BSE is also known to spread on...
Cows become infected with the prion that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) by ingesting it. The prion is a misfolded protein found primarily in the central nervous system (brain and...