Meanings of transmissible spongiform in English

It gets into your neural tissue and creates a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

Scrapie is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep and goats.

Infectious proteins (prions) became an important medical issue when they were identified as agents of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

The prion hypothesis postulates that the infectious agent in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) is an unorthodox protein conformation based agent.

Whether a genetic informational nucleic acid is required for the infectivity of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is central to the debate about the infectious agent.

"Prions are neurodegenerative diseases called ' transmissible spongiform encephalopathies,' or TSEs," he explained.

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