Prion Diseases
- 4 July 2017
- book chapter
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Advances in Neurobiology
- Vol. 15, 335-364
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57193-5_13
Abstract
Prion diseases are a group of invariably fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that are associated with the misfolding of the normal cellular prion protein, with the misfolded conformers constituting an infectious unit referred to as a “prion”. Prions can spread within an affected organism by directly propagating this misfolding within and between cells and can transmit disease between animals of the same and different species. Prion diseases have a range of clinical phenotypes in humans and animals, with a principle determinant of this attributed to different conformations of the misfolded protein, referred to as prion strains. This chapter will describe the different clinical manifestations of prion diseases, the evidence that these diseases can be transmitted by an infectious protein and how the misfolding of this protein causes disease.This publication has 100 references indexed in Scilit:
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