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Extractions: Home Health Talk on KARE-11 > Mad Cow Disease Jan. 22, 2004 Jeffrey Bender, College of Veterinary Medicine, discussed mad cow disease on the Jan. 22 KARE-11 Today show. Q What is Mad Cow Disease? Should I avoid eating beef? Bender : Mad Cow disease has drawn a lot of attention since Dec. 23 when a single dairy cow in Washington state was found to have the disease. Mad cow, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal disease in cattle that causes degeneration of the brain. The disease first made the news in the 1980s when there was an outbreak of BSE in Britain that forced the destruction of 190,000 animals. Scientists learned that feeding rendered animal proteins to cows and other animals spread the disease. There's speculation that a related degenerative brain disease in sheep called scrapie might have crossed the species in this fashion. That research has led to a ban on feeding animal proteins to grazing animals in several countries, including the United States. The outbreak in Europe triggered concern because it appears that mad cow can cause a form of the disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, which is a rare and progressive degenerative brain disease that has led to the deaths of more than 140 people in the United Kingdom and about a dozen others worldwide.
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Extractions: Central nervous system Definition: Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease is a disorder involving rapid decrease of mental function and movement. These are abnormalities believed to be caused by damage done to the brain by a protein called a prion. This protein folds abnormally, and seems to encourage other proteins to become similarly misshapen, affecting their ability to function. Alternative Names: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy; New variant CJD - "the human form of mad cow disease" Causes And Risk: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can occur sporadically (for no known reason), as a result of exposure to contaminated products. Rarely, it can be genetically inherited. The disorder itself is rare, occurring in about 1 out of 1 million people. It usually first appears in midlife, beginning between ages 20 and 70, with average age at onset of symptoms in the late 50s. However, some cases have occurred in adolescents who have received
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Extractions: University of Yamanashi Yamanashi 409-3898, Japan A 78-year-old woman presented with a 2-month history of rapid progressive dementia with myoclonus. MR imaging was performed at admission to our hospital on a 0.2-T clinical MR unit (Signa Profile; General Electric Yokogawa Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan). After performing conventional T2- and T1-weighted transverse MR imaging, we performed line scan diffusion-weighted imaging
Extractions: Study of Growth Hormone Treatment and Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Underscores Need for Prevention of Adrenal Crises The largest study of its kind, designed to track the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people who received human growth hormone from cadavers, has found that the vast majority of those who received the hormone did not contract the fatal condition. However, some recipients (26 out of approximately 7,700) did develop the disease. A larger number (59) died from adrenal crisis, a sometimes-fatal complication that can be prevented if it is recognized and treated promptly. Adrenal crisis does not affect all patients who require growth hormone, but may occur in a subgroup of patients whose pituitary gland fails to make not only growth hormone but also the hormone needed to regulate the adrenal glands. Human growth hormone is now manufactured synthetically, and the synthetic form does not transmit Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). The study tracks individuals who received cadaver-derived human growth hormone, to determine their risk of developing CJD and to observe their health status. The federal study's findings appear in the April Journal of Pediatrics. It was conducted by scientists at several agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). At the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, took part in the study. Researchers from two other HHS agencies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also participated, as did the research corporation Westat.
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Extractions: Appointments Medical Services Health Information Find a Doctor Search: Search Encyclopedia: List of Topics Print This Page  Cognitive Neurology Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Central nervous system Definition: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a disorder involving rapid decrease of mental function and movement. These are abnormalities believed to be caused by damage done to the brain by a protein called a prion. This protein folds abnormally, and seems to encourage other proteins to become similarly misshapen, affecting their ability to function. Alternative Names: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy; Mad Cow - new variant CJD Causes, incidence, and risk factors: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can occur sporadically (for no known reason), as a result of exposure to contaminated products. Rarely, it can be genetically inherited. The disorder itself is rare, occurring in about 1 out of 1 million people. It usually first appears in midlife, beginning between ages 20 and 70, with average age at onset of symptoms in the late 50s. However, some cases have occurred in adolescents who have received
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Extractions: A patient has died of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD). In a histological section of brain from this patient, what would you expect to observe? A Viral inclusion bodies in the nuclei of neurons. B Viral inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm of neurons. C Extracellular aggregates of virus particles with RNA genomes. D Extracellular aggregates composed of a complex mixture of neuron proteins. E Extracellular aggregates largely composed of a single protein. A 24-year-old man has a history of chronic neurological symptoms over the preceding eight months. Memory, cognitive functions, and motor control were all affected. Imaging studies indicate damage to neural tissue in many parts of the brain. Cultures and serological tests for bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens are negative. If this is 'New Variant' Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, what would you expect to observe in a brain biopsy?
Extractions: Click here to view next page of this article Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the major transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or prion disease) in humans. The incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has not changed. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies A number of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been described in animals and humans (Table 1). All have incubation periods of months to years, and all gradually increase in severity and lead to death over a period of months. None evoke an immune response, and all share a common noninflammatory pathologic process restricted to the central nervous system. The only macromolecules thus far associated with infection are isoforms of a host membrane sialoglycoprotein called prion protein (PrP). These transmissible agents appear to have common mechanisms of pathogenesis and possibly a common origin. Some have spread across species barriers (transmissible mink encephalopathy and possibly new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease); some have reached epidemic proportions by entering the food chain (transmissible mink encephalopathy, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and kuru); and others have been transmitted by inheritance of mutations. Scrapie is a subacute, progressive ataxia of sheep and goats. Animals affected by scrapie have been recognized by shepherds for over 200 years, and for many years the disorder was regarded as an inherited, degenerative disease of the brain and spinal cord. In 1936 scrapie was reported to be transmitted from sheep to sheep with an incubation period in excess of one year; nevertheless, controversy continues to this day about the natural mode of transmission and the relative role of genetic susceptibility. The disease has been experimentally transmitted to many species, but although amplification occurs in some neural cell lines, no in vitro assay has been developed. Therefore, most of our knowledge of the nature of prions.
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Extractions: AAACN Viewpoint ABNF Journal, The AIDS Treatment News AMAA Journal ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Mad cow disease: management by crisis - On The Web www.cspinet.org Nutrition Action Healthletter Jan-Feb, 2004 by Michael F. Jacobson Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. After years of trepidation, the unwanted happened: a cow afflicted with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)mad cow diseasewas discovered in the U.S. last December. And that raised the possibility that American consumers are at risk of suffering its human counterpartthe devastating and invariably fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. The one infected Holstein cow immediately caused cattle prices to plunge, Japan and other countries to refuse U.S. beef, and confusion among consumers about what's safe to eat. Unfortunately, the crisis probably didn't have to occur.
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Extractions: New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease: the epidemic that never was ." I particularly like Venters' view that the rate of growth in the number of vCJD cases is much less than one would expect from a foodborne source. That, in fact, the rate of growth of these cases is "consistent with a previously misdiagnosed but extremely rare disease being found. This could have resulted from the improved ascertainment of all possible cases of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease that has been achieved in recent years by the United Kingdom Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Surveillance Unit."
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