| Scientists originally believed the goat had scrapie, a disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, eats holes in the brains of cattle. |
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| The prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease aren't broken down by normal cooking temperatures. |
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| Routine post-mortem testing did not rule out BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow. |
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| An announcement was made that a Siamese cat had died of a spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| Neurodegenerative diseases causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are the subject of intense research. |
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| Eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, can cause a fatal brain disorder in humans. |
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| Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a fatal disease of the central nervous system. |
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| Seven months later, the UK Central Veterinary Laboratory diagnosed bovine spongiform encephalopathy as the cause of its death. |
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| National Cattlemen's Beef Association identified bovine spongiform encephalopathy as a crisis issue more than 20 years ago. |
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| Younger cattle are less likely to suffer from the fatal brain wasting disease, officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| Prions are misshaped proteins believed to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. |
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| Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as mad cow disease, surfaced in the UK in 1986 and has affected nearly 200,000 cattle. |
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| Chapter 5, by Martin Groschup et al, describes immunohistochemical analysis of the abnormal prion proteins in bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie. |
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| Like mad cow disease and CWD, CJD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that kills its victims by filling their brains with microscopic sponge-like holes. |
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| Of course, some are country specific, as was demonstrated during the 1990s by the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the British beef and dairy herds. |
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| This extremely rare and fatal brain disorder belongs to a family of human and animal diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. |
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| The S is for spongiform, because of the appearance of the brain cells that are affected by this. |
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| Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as mad cow disease and its human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are not caused by bacteria or viruses. |
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| Along with the carcinogenic consequences of asbestos, spongiform encephalitis is yet another time bomb laid by industry's capitalist management. |
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| More than five million cattle across Europe have been killed to stop the spread of mad cow disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| The underlying pathology of these DWI lesions is unknown but may represent spongiform changes or prion protein deposits. |
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| The editor of the Lancet has written that the decision to publish the Wakefield paper must be seen in the context of criticism of the government for not making known early reports of bovine spongiform encephalopathy risk. |
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| The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu was identified in a zoo in Switzerland. |
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| Isolation from cattle of a prion strain distinct from that causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| Mad cow disease, known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy in animals, eventually causes a spongy deterioration of the brain. |
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| These can then be taken into account in the text of directives on the prevention of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies which the Council is to submit to the European Parliament. |
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| In particular, in February the Council adopted a common position on a Regulation establishing provisions for the prevention and control of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. |
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| However, there has never been a case of spongiform encephalitis attributed to Mad Cow prions in humans, despite the enthusiastic consumption of beef in all its forms by the British. |
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| In the case of dairy products, the rise in production costs in the wake of bovine spongiform encephalitis and the search for substitutes for meat consumption also played a part. |
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| The spongiform changes are most evident in basal ganglia and thalamus. |
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| Differential diagnosis of neurologically expressed disorders is an essential element in the clinical epidemiological surveillance of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| Diagnosis is based on clinical signs with post mortem confirmation of characteristic brain lesions by histopathology or detection of the fibrillary proteins specific for the spongiform encephalopathies. |
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| We are still struggling to understand how the mysterious infectious prion of bovine spongiform encephalopathy managed to pass to humans without actually causing the feared epidemic. |
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| Gordon Hayward and Warren Stiver, professors in the University of Guelph's School of Engineering, are developing a device to pinpoint BSE and related forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases. |
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| Other diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, swine fever, screwworm and rabies also lead to losses in production and trading restrictions. |
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| Finally, the slightest suspicion of any form of spongiform encephalopathy in any animal must be notified to the competent authorities so that we can take appropriate action. |
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| The images are useful in detection of, for example, a bone abscess or a spongiform encephalopathy produced by a prion. |
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| Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, also known as prion diseases, are fatal neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and animals. |
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| The border had been closed since May 20, 2003, since the detection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an Alberta cow. |
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| Researchers in the United Kingdom studying livestock that resist so-called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies report mixed results. |
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| The major goal of the book is to address the pathologic mechanisms leading to the generation of spongiform encephalopathies. |
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| Numerous studies have shown that spongiform encephalopathies are transmissible between species. |
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| Prions are now recognized as etiologic agents of other transmissible spongiform encepalopathies, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. |
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| The most common pathological features of GSS include numerous amyloid plaques, spongiform changes, neuronal loss, astrocytic microgliosis, and neurofibrillary tangles. |
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| Discrimination between scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in sheep by molecular size immunoreactivity and glycoprofile of prion protein. |
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| The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords. |
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| There is a chapter on bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Scrapie in sheep as well as a chapter on chronic wasting disease and various other animal prion diseases. |
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| Like the eternal riddle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, some scientists have pondered the source of the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. |
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| The animal, which was born in February 1999, is the fifth-youngest found here with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. |
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| A prion disease called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy is endemic to cows. |
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