Sentence examples for an abnormal form of from inspiring English sources
Later clinicians discovered that the condition is inherited and occurs predominantly in blacks, and others proved that the abnormality of the red blood cell is due to an abnormal form of hemoglobin.
Experts believe the disease is linked to contaminated feed made from meat and bone meal that contains an abnormal form of a protein called a prion.
A hallmark of Alzheimer's is deposits in the brain of an abnormal form of a protein called amyloid.
A neuropathologist named Bennet Omalu autopsied Webster, Long, and Waters, and detected a pattern: each had a high concentration of an abnormal form of a protein, called tau, on his brain.
Patients with Grade 3 gliomas whose tumors had an abnormal form of the protein called epidermal growth factor receptor lived a median of only 7.2 months, compared with 33 months for those with the usual form of the protein.
In about 40 percent of patients, the deposits are an abnormal form of a protein called tau, which normally gives structural support to brain cells.
According to the "protein-only" hypothesis, prions are solely composed of an abnormal form (PrPSc) of the PrP protein (PrPC), a glycosyl-phosphatidyl inositol (GPI) anchored protein normally expressed at the surface of a number of cell types including in particular neurons.
The prion hypothesis posits that the posttranslational conformational conversion of a host's normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) by the abnormal form of the prion protein (PrPSc) is the fundamental event in prion disease pathogenesis and that PrPSc itself constitutes the infectious agent.
Furthermore, it is still not known when in the incubation period detectable levels of PrPSc, the abnormal form of the prion protein, begin to accumulate in different tissues.
The abnormal form of prion protein, PrPSc accumulates in the brain of affected individuals.
The abnormal form of prion protein characterized by its resistance to PK digestion was detected with high intensity in each sample analysed.
