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The study demonstrates new treatment for prion diseases – Tech Explorist
A new study in Nucleic Acids Research, published by Oxford University Press, suggests a possible effective treatment strategy for patients suffering from prion diseases.
Prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions, which are “proteinaceous infectious particles.” Prion diseases are caused by disrupting the structure of a healthy human prion protein, producing toxic clumps in the brain. Because prion protein is central to disease, reducing prion protein in patients is a promising therapeutic approach.
The most common form of prion disease that affects humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, popularly kn…
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