PrP及朊病毒疾病的的常规研究将有可能变得更加容易理解。
There's hope that by disentangling PrP's normal job, prion diseases will become easier to understand.
但是目前还不清楚这一变异是否对其他由朊病毒引起的疾病有效。
But it's not yet known whether the variant protects against other prion diseases.
2003年，米德和他的同事发现了朊病毒基因更普遍的变体，可以抗御与朊病毒有关的疾病。
In 2003, Mead and his colleagues discovered a much more common variant of the prion gene that provides protection against prion diseases.
朊病毒是一种畸形的蛋白质，导致一些致命的疾病：如疯牛病，羊痒病，人类库鲁和克雅氏病(CJD, vCJD)。
Prions cause a number of fatal diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
Aguzzi指出，还有一些人类疾病与这次我们在老鼠身上发现的状况非常相似。他将继续寻找朊病毒是否与这些人类疾病有关。
But other human diseases "look very similar to what we see in these mice," notes Aguzzi, who's eager to find out whether prion proteins are involved.
很多朊病毒类型的疾病是由同类相食所导致的。
CJD是一种进行性致命性神经变性疾病，是由于朊病毒在神经元内堆积所致。
CJD is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by prion proteins accumulating within the neurons.
CJD是一种进行性致命性神经变性疾病，是由于朊病毒在神经元内堆积所致。
CJD is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by prion proteins accumulating within the neurons.
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