Dr. Sandra Pritzkow: Prions and Chronic Wasting Disease

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
02/07/2022 24 min Episodio 352
Dr. Sandra Pritzkow: Prions and Chronic Wasting Disease

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Prion disorders are rare neurological diseases where a protein within the nervous system converts to a pathological form. The change in conformation affects other proteins, recruiting them to the misshapen, deleterious type. Chronic wasting disease is a neurological disease of deer, caused by prion conversion. In this episode Dr. Sandra Pritzkow from University of Texas Health - Houston describes prion related disease, and specifically the atypical transmission elements of chronic wasting disease. 

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