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Published online 16 August 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010823-1
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Prion and on
Promise abounds for prion-disease treatments - or does it?
Antibodies may help to fight prion diseases, such as mad cow disease and human Creuzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), a new study hints, rounding out the recent spate of announcements of potential treatments for the fatal illnesses1,2,3.
Diseases such as CJD, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cows and scrapie in sheep are thought to occur when malformed prion proteins bind to normal brain proteins, bending them out of shape.
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