PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Wilke, William S.
AU  - Olds, G. Richard
TI  - Kuru and mad cow disease: Understanding the prion theory
DP  - 1998 Jun 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 291--296
VI  - 65
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/65/6/291.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/65/6/291.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1998 Jun 01; 65
AB  - 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.