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scrapie
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scrapie
definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a fatal ...
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Prusiner, Stanley (Ben)
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... Jakob disease (CJD), he later studied the related sheep disorder
scrapie
and reported isolation of its causative agent in 1982. Initially ...
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prion
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... lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for
scrapie
and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system Merriam Webster ...
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mad cow disease
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... animal remains, incl. those of sheep with a similar disease,
scrapie
. Both diseases are caused by prions. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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slow virus
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... period between infection and development of a degenerative disease (as
scrapie
or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
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bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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... of cattle affecting the nervous system, resembling or identical with
scrapie
of sheep and goats, and probably caused by a prion ...
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Slow
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... host organism and has a long incubation period, such as
scrapie
or BSE. Derivatives: slowish adj. slowly adv. slowness n. Etymology ...
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virino
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... a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of
scrapie
and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists ...