Sentence examples for abnormal shape from inspiring English sources

In both diseases, a normal protein that ferries nourishing factors to heart tissue assumes an abnormal shape.

The misfolded, or rogue, protein acts like a template, forcing other healthy prions to fold into the abnormal shape.

For unknown reasons, a normal protein called a prion twists into an abnormal shape, usually in the brain.

Once present in the brain prions multiply by inducing benign proteins to refold into the abnormal shape.

The abnormal shape resulting from too many glutamines in the protein will prevent normal functioning of the huntingtin protein.

For the first time, researchers have found a way to treat two deadly heart ailments that are caused by a protein that folds into an abnormal shape.

The disease begins when some of the prions found throughout the body take on an abnormal shape and infect normal prions.

He said that many proteins caused disease when they adopted an abnormal shape and formed toxic fibrils that created havoc in the brain or body.

Prion diseases occur when a normal protein called a cellular prion misfolds into an abnormal shape that cannot be broken down by enzymes.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is caused by a protein, called a prion, that folds itself into an abnormal shape that has several lethal properties.

Doctors believe that the diseases develop when a normal protein found on the the surface of cells somehow misfolds into an abnormal shape.