Sentence examples for encephalopathies from inspiring English sources

Along with scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, it is a member of a class of strange degenerative diseases of the brain known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.

Scrapie is one of a group of diseases classified as spongiform encephalopathies, so named because the resultant deterioration of neurons causes a spongelike pattern to develop in the brain tissue.

One scientist who disagrees with Prusiner is Patricia Merz, who studied the sheep form of spongiform encephalopathies, called scrapie.

Prusiner, who studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and has spent his career in the University of California system, began working on spongiform encephalopathies in 1972.

A REPORTER AT LARGE about mad-cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (B.S.E). in Britain... Tells how 903,000 British cows eventually contracted B.S.E.... B.S.E.'s are members of a family of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or T.S.E.s.

In 1982, he posited a new kind of infectious agent, unique in nature, to explain the unusual characteristics of a group of rare, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (T.S.E.s --diseases T.S.E.s --diseasesing T.S.E.s --diseasesthatf junkillotein and tiny holes.

For there is probably a very, very small chance correction, a very, very, very small chance that bony-beef eaters will contract a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, deriving from bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad-cow disease") and transmitted, maybe, in beef bones.

One is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

FARM ministers from the European Union agreed at an emergency meeting in Brussels on Monday, December 4th, to a set of Europe-wide proposals to help prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

Dr Prusiner, who works at the University of California, San Francisco, has championed the idea that a range of brain disorders including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in man, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad-cow disease") in cattle, and scrapie in sheep are caused by misshapen proteins called prions.

CRITICS of America's cattle industry like to claim that its main problem with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad-cow disease) is refusing to admit that it has a problem.