An overview of animal prion diseases

M Imran, S Mahmood - Virology journal, 2011 - Springer
Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions affecting human and a wide
range of animal species. The pathogenesis of prion diseases is associated with the …

Genetic factors in mammalian prion diseases

S Mead, S Lloyd, J Collinge - Annual review of genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Mammalian prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative conditions caused by infection
of the central nervous system with proteinaceous agents called prions, including sporadic …

BSE case associated with prion protein gene mutation

JA Richt, SM Hall - PLoS Pathogens, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
(TSE) of cattle and was first detected in 1986 in the United Kingdom. It is the most likely …

The risk of prion infection through bovine grafting materials

Y Kim, AE Rodriguez, H Nowzari - Clinical implant dentistry …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Bovine‐derived grafting materials are frequently used in a variety of bone
augmentation techniques. The aim of this paper is to assess the unique safety issue of …

The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of livestock

JJ Greenlee, MHW Greenlee - ILAR journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are fatal protein-
misfolding neurodegenerative diseases. TSEs have been described in several species …

Prion and prion-like diseases in animals

P Aguilar-Calvo, C García, JC Espinosa, O Andreoletti… - Virus research, 2015 - Elsevier
Transmissible spongiform encephalopaties (TSEs) are fatal neurodegenerative diseases
characterized by the aggregation and accumulation of the misfolded prion protein in the …

A review of selected genes with known effects on performance and health of cattle

E Casas, ME Kehrli Jr - Frontiers in veterinary science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
There are genetic conditions that influence production in dairy and beef cattle. The objective
of this review was to describe relevant genetic conditions that have been associated with …

Atypical prion diseases in humans and animals

MA Tranulis, SL Benestad, T Baron, H Kretzschmar - Prion Proteins, 2011 - Springer
Although prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and scrapie
in sheep, have long been recognized, our understanding of their epidemiology and …

First Report of the Potential Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)-Related Somatic Mutation E211K of the Prion Protein Gene (PRNP) in Cattle

SY Won, YC Kim, BH Jeong - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a prion disease characterized by spongiform
degeneration and astrocytosis in the brain. Unlike classical BSE, which is caused by prion …

Atypical and classic bovine spongiform encephalopathy

C Casalone, J Hope - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
This chapter describes the prion diseases of cattle, or bovine transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (BoTSEs).“Classic” bovine spongiform encephalopathy (C-BSE), the …