Choose one prion disease, and find an interesting article about that disease online. Briefly summarize the disease listing symptoms, etc, and explain why that article was of interest to you. (250 words)
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1) Prions : Misfolded proteins which are causative for many
neuronal system degenerative disorders.
2) One of the disorders caused by Prions is Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD).
4) Symptoms of disease : Failure of induction of immune response,
Neuronal loss, characteristic changes.
5) Disease is fatal and is caused by an abnormally forming isoform
a particular cellular glycoprotein.
6) This disease is classified under TSE - Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy.
7) Typical EEG patterns are diagnostic for the disease.
Confirmation is done by immunological testing of brain.
8) Disease is extremely rare and is found in only one individual
per million individuals. The risk of disease increases with
age.
9) Occurence - Mostly as a sporadic disease. Rarely, due to
mutations.
10) Patient comes with complaint of Dementia and shows some early
neurological signs.
11) EEG shows periodic sharp waves and there is accumulation seen
in immunohistochemical examination of brain.
12) Iatrogenic source of infection is due to usage of contaminated
neurosurgical equipments.
13) The special thing about this disease as asked in question is
the implementation of new rules by WHO for instrument sterilisation
to reduce the risk of such diseases.
14) Immersion of instruments in Sodium hypochlorite is now made
mandatory. However, thid id not strictly done as instruments get
damaged due to this practice
15) No therapy of treatment has yet been discovered. The disease is
invariably fatal.
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