Kuru and mad cow disease: Understanding the prion theory

William S. Wilke, MD
William S. Wilke
MD
and G. Richard Olds, MD
G. Richard Olds
Chairman, Department of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland; Charles H. Rammelkamp Jr. Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University College of Medicine; expert in geographic medicine and tropical disease. Chaired a number of committees for the World Health Organization
MD

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
June 1998,
65
(6)
291-296;

ABSTRACT

A preponderance of evidence indicates that several neurodegenerative disorders are caused by prions: abnormally folded proteins that can induce abnormal folding in other normal protein molecules. Further, these "infections" can cross some species barriers.

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Kuru and mad cow disease: Understanding the prion theory

William S. Wilke

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and G. Richard Olds

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Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

June 1998,

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(6)

291-296;

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Kuru and mad cow disease: Understanding the prion theory

William S. Wilke

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G. Richard Olds

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

June 1998,

65

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291-296;

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