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(TSEs), also known as prion diseases, are a group of progressive, incurable, and fatal conditions that are associated with the prion hypothesis and affect...

neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which are sometimes referred to as prion-like diseases...

Familial Alzheimer-like prion disease is an exceptionally rare inherited prion disease. Its name comes from its presentation, which is similar to Alzheimer's...

disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease...

neurodegenerative prion disease that results in trouble sleeping as its hallmark symptom. The majority of cases are familial (fatal familial insomnia [FFI])...

PMID 20351351. Brundin P, Melki R (October 2017). "Prying into the Prion Hypothesis for Parkinson's Disease". Journal of Neuroscience. 37 (41): 9808–9818. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI...

include such diseases as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (and a variant associated with mad cow disease) and other prion diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's...

disease, Huntington's disease, multiple system atrophy, tauopathies, and prion diseases. Neurodegeneration can be found in the brain at many different levels...

mainly sporadic and only a few cases are familial. Others are only familial. Some result from medical treatment. Prions are an infectious form of amyloids that...

family history of the disease, and these are known as familial ALS (hereditary). About half of these genetic cases are due to disease-causing variants in...

illnesses with genetic variants such as polycystic kidney disease, familial Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer. The European Molecular Genetics Quality...

collaboration with Italian researchers. This infection is a form of prion disease (transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, TSE) that affects camels....

neurodegenerative diseases, cells of the central nervous system stop working or die via neurodegeneration. An example of this is Alzheimer's disease. The other...

prion infection. The oligomers are toxic to nerve cells. The other protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease, tau protein, also forms such prion-like...

Sensitive Prionopathy) is a sporadic prion protein disease first described in an abstract for a conference on prions in 2006, and this study was published...

individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are often found on autopsy to also have Lewy bodies, DLB has been characterized as an Alzheimer disease-related dementia;...

encephalopathies Prion Disease (Kuru, CJD, GSS, BSE) Alzheimer's disease Sickle cell anemia Parkinson's disease Huntington's disease Gibbs, Clarence J...

Alpha-synuclein pathology is also found in both sporadic and familial cases with Alzheimer's disease. The aggregation mechanism of alpha-synuclein is uncertain...

factor abolishing neuronal cell death by a wide spectrum of familial Alzheimer's disease genes and Abeta". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

protein-misfolding diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and prion diseases. Amelioration of mouse models of many diseases has been shown to occur...