Prion used in a sentence

Prion in a sentence as a noun

Yes its unfortunate some people will develop prion disease, but... you get it.

A prion is a tiny organism, smaller than a virus, but that can replicate.

Or a prion - not really a virus, but an agent that causes the body to misbehave, almost by accident.

But some 13% of Alzheimer's diagnosis are actually a prion attack.

Additionally we know that there are some prion diseases that are not consumption-related.

They found that this natural response was being overinduced in mice with prion disease and inhibiting it actually made them better.

The Alzheimer's prion hypothesis is implausible, or at least incomplete.

And since there is no screening for prions and no one is sure how long prion diseases remain asymptomatic all Europeans are not allowed to give blood/marrow/organs.

The reasons for this are a similar prion disease in New Guinea has been shown to have a very long asymptomatic period measured in decades.

Go ahead and peruse wikipedia for "prion diseases" ... it's a fascinating subject with some very scary subtopics.

In this sense, the amyloidosis was "transmitted".The prion-like behavior mentioned is the ability of prions to do something similar.

Alzheimer and other dementia are also probably the result of an a priori prion-like phenomenon.

If the view of diseases like PD as prion-like diseases with perhaps randomly misfolded proteins that recruit others and propagate through the brain is correct, for example, will targeting gene expression be able to do that much beyond treating symptoms?

The article says: "The researchers studied mice with prion disease because these mouse models currently provide the best animal representation of human neurodegenerative disorders in which the build up of misshapen proteins is linked with brain cell death.

The premise of the research is something akin to: Based on recent news reports, where a whistleblower revealed that tobacco farmers routinely fertilize their crops with human brains, which then inadvertantly leads to contamination of tobacco products, leaving all smokers at risk of developing human prion related diseases, we've conducted a study to see if this increased the frequency of hits on the Phillip Morris website's ingredients page.