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Mad Cow Disease Amino Acids
1,495 wordsWho would of thought that eating hamburgers, steaks and drinking milk could produce an epidemic disease? These types of food are frequently eaten for their appealing tastes and nutritional values. The discovery of Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (CJD) has been a long and remarkable one. The cause of this disease is a mutated prion protein within the brain that can be either inherited or acquired. These mutations create sponge like holes that destroy the brain. As a result, the disorder gives both behav...
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Our Blood Supply
1,115 wordsThe well-being of the blood supply has always been a vital component of human existence. It is common knowledge that the existing blood supply is deficient to the increasing usage of blood and blood products. Ironically, as the topic of blood donation arises in society, fears and doubts as to how sanitary and healthful the blood of blood donors often surface. For instance, there is much criticism over allowing foreign travelers to Great Britain the opportunity to donate their blood. This critici...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Nucleic Acid
1,120 wordsOver the years there have been many documented cases of diseases for which there appeared to be no cause. Only within the late 20 th century has the reason for these illnesses been brought into the spotlight. The symptoms of these illnesses are usually the loss of coordination followed by dementia, but in some cases an inability to sleep develops into dementia. These symptoms are caused by damaged regions of the brain. This damage occurs in the form of normal tissue changing to a sponge-like con...
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The Threat Of Mad Cow Disease In America
1,071 words... 100, 000 cattle which die per year from the disease (Klepper 1). Even though the disease is difficult to detect with medical tests, there are symptoms of the disease. Physical symptoms include sore joints and muscles. Psychiatric problems include personality changes, depression, difficulty sleeping, withdrawal, fearfulness, paranoia and possible Alzheimers disease (Lawrence 6). When a cows immune system is contaminated with the Mad Cow disease; the side affects include drooling, wobbling (su...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Monozygotic Twins
4,078 wordsWhat is Dementia? Dementia Dementia Dementia What is Dementia? Dementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), b...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Mad Cow Disease
1,270 wordsFatal Familial Insomnia Fatal familial insomnia is a genetic disorder. It manifests itself by many symptoms due to the degeneration of a certain part of the brain, the thalamus. The disease also results in the formation of amyloid plaques. This is the build up of a waxy substance made of proteins associated with polysaccharides. The disease is a result of a mutation of a normal protein that is associated with brain tissue. This is the prion protein. In the case of fatal familial insomnia, the mu...
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Mad Cow Disease Incubation Period
2,101 wordsBovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better know as Mad cow disease is a relatively new disease. Most sources state that BSE first showed up in Great Britain in 1986 [Dealler p. 5 ] but some say it popped up in 1985 [Greger p. 1 ]. However the official notification was not until 21 June, 1988 [Dealler stats. p. 1 ]. Spongiform encephalopathies are invariable fatal neurodegenerative diseases and there is no treatment nor is there a cure for this disease [Greger p. 1 ]. The recent scare of BSE ...
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