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    Abou-Sleiman PM and Wood NW PINK‚ PANK‚ or PARK? A clinicians ’ guide to familial Parkinsonism. Lancet Neurol. 3: 652–662 (2004). Curr Opin Neurobiol‚ 14:379-383 (2004). Prusiner SB: Prions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 13363–13383 (1998). Rane N‚ Kang S‚ Chakrabarti O‚ Feigenbaum L and Hegde R: Reduced Translocation of Nascent Prion Protein During ER Stress Contributes to Neurodegeneration Dev Cell. September; 15(3): 359–370 (2008). Wang HQ and Takahashi R: Expanding insights on the involvement of endoplasmic

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    Kuru Disease

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    mainly occurred in the New Guinea region. A person can develop Kuru from consuming a family member’s dead brain tissue. Another way an individual can acquire the disease is through contact with opened sores or wounds present. Kuru can be considered a prion disease due to the fact it is part of a class of infectious diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies(TSE). One major difficulty associated with Kuru is that it has a long incubation period. That is‚ a person who has developed this

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    Zombie Apocalypse

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    In Cracked.com’s‚ “five scientific reasons the zombie apocalypse could actually happen‚” by TE Sloth and David Wong. They list and cover some legitimate reasons it is actually quite possible and not the typical ‘ho hum’ “that could never happen” type of scenario to support their hypothesis. Zombies a reality‚ really? People have debated whether or not it is a conceivable theory for decades. As years pass our technology continues to advance at a rapid pace only gaining momentum. What will happen

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    Hardware Disease Bovine traumatic reticuloperitonitis or also known as hardware disease‚ is a disease seen mostly in dairy cattle and occasionally seen in beef cattle. It is often noted that farmers will be recommended by veterinarians to give their cattle big magnets to collect the metal if any inside the reticulum of the animal and hopefully the magnet will stay in the animal’s stomach until it dies or goes to market. Hardware disease is a disease where the bovine ingests some sort of metal

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    Headline: Mad Cow Disease Symptoms Keywords: Mad Cow Disease‚ Symptoms‚ humans‚ cattle Page Description: Mad cow disease is a neurological disorder that affects cattle. It is an infectious disease can also affect other species including humans. Symptoms of this disease are usually psychiatric. This disease is incurable and fatal. Text: { Mad Cow Disease Mad cow disease is a neurological disorder of cattle that can be transmitted to humans. In humans‚ mad cow disease is known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob

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    Case Study “Some deer farmers put ethics on line for profit” By Nilesh A. Vaghasiya Business Ethics Dallas Baptist University In less than 40 years‚ a small group of farmers has built a billion dollar industry primary devoted to breeding the deer‚ which were kept in the fencing and were used for the hinting in order to make money. This is an industry that no one has seen in last four decades. An Indianapolis Star investigation has discovered the industry costs taxpayers millions

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    Plenty of people love the fact that they can enjoy life normal because their brain functions accordingly. Well not every one has the gift of normality. In this harsh world people are dying of all types of diseases and things that are undetectable or even treatable due to the fact that they have unknown origins. Many of the world’s diseases such as HIV‚ AIDS‚ some cases of Multiple Sclerosis and Muscular Dystrophies. Among these fatal and life threatening ailments Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease‚ other

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    Neurodegenerative diseases is a common cause of dementia which means that the brain cells known at the neurons either are degenerating therefore the neuron die off quicker than that of the neurons of a normal aging processes. This will lead to a more decline in the persons mental health such as memory‚ language and sometimes their physical abilities all depending on which area of the brain is infected. These neurodegenerative diseases are known to us as Alzheimer’s‚ fronto-temporal dementia‚

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    Alcatraz Prion

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    Sidney Lamb 4/15/2013 English P.1 Alcatraz Prison Alcatraz Prison Alcatraz Prison... Most people think scary‚ dangerous‚ and a very isolated place when they hear those words. They also think of the island it’s on in San Francisco Bay‚ the people that have been there like Al Capone and Robert Stroud‚ and also the many escape attempts quite a few prisoners have tried to take a stab at. Always though‚ these attempts failed. There are one-thousand eight hundred twenty-one prisons

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    Lab Vet Science Three

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    Review Questions 1. What is bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Why is there concern about this disease? Bovine spongiform encephalopathy‚ more commonly known as mad cow disease‚ is a fatal neurodegenerative disease‚ which causes a spongy type of degeneration in the spinal cord and brain of infected cattle. 2. What is colic? Describe at least two different types of colic. Colic simply means a pain in the stomach. Horses can experience several different types of colic‚ ranging from relatively

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