Sentence examples for first prion from inspiring English sources

Although the first prion discovered - mammalian PrP - is the causative agent of debilitating neuropathies, many additional prions have now been identified that are not obviously detrimental and can even be adaptive.

Classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (cBSE), the first prion disease identified in cattle, was initially reported in 1986 in the UK.

First, prion disease could be affecting the survival of newly generated neural precursor cells such that they are disabled, and unable to reach the immature stage of differentiation (DCX+).

But during the decades since then, it was discovered that in cases of the first identified prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a neurodegenerative disease that is a human variant of "mad cow disease," misfolded proteins within the body that replicate could spread disease to other animals and humans.

Furthermore, results from our study compare for the first time prion detection by Western Blot versus an infectivity bioassay for analysis of biodiesel reaction products.

The first discovered prion protein gene PRNP homologue was doppel gene PRND, which lies adjacent to PRNP in the genomic sequence [ 7].

In the second step, the active hits were tested against [URE3], a second yeast prion unrelated to [PSI+].

But Dr. Stanley Prusiner, a neurologist at the University of California in San Francisco who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for first describing prions as infectious particles, disagreed.

The active compounds are then further tested against [URE3], a second yeast prion which is unrelated to [PSI+].

laboratory of Dr. Stanley Prusiner, who was the first person to describe prion diseases.

The plasma membrane has been proposed to be the first site of prion conversion11, 12, 15,16,17, 75.