The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no treatment.

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After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and severe neurological decline before taking her life. The source of the ...

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Disease-associated prion protein (PrP Sc ... Tissue homogenates were adjusted to 5 mg/ml (brain) or 8 mg/ml (spleen) protein and treated with proteinase K (20 μg/ml, 30 min, 37 °C).

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As indicated by previous studies 2, infection is likely to reach the central ... or intraperitoneally with 20 μl of a 1% scrapie mouse brain homogenate in physiological saline (a dose of ...

In a study of newborn piglets, infection with influenza A was associated with disruptions in the piglets' nasal and gut ...