Chemicals may curb BSE
7 December 1999
Chemicals may curb BSE
A FAMILY of chemicals could make drugs to fight the prion protein that causes the fatal brain disease variants CJD and BSE.
This is according to a report by Professor Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study found that “branched polyamines” were able to purge cells of the infectious prion protein.
The finding was taken as evidence to suggest they may be useful in treating these and other disorders.
- Scientists solve one BSE mystery, Fwi, 12 November, 1999
- Prusiner to give evidence at BSE inquiry, FWi, 15 April, 1998
- Nobel Prize prion award may have jumped the gun, FWi, 26 January, 1998
- The Daily Telegraph 07/12/99 page 10 (In Brief)
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