Examples of 'prion' in a sentence

Meaning of "prion"

Prion (noun): A type of abnormal protein particle that can cause degenerative diseases in the brain, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or mad cow disease
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  • A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
  • A petrel of the genus Pachyptila.

How to use "prion" in a sentence

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Along with the prion samples he promised us.
Prion research was less advanced in those days.
Is a thing called a prion protein in the brain.
Prion diseases are always progressive and fatal.
It functions very much like a prion on steroids.
Survey of prion protein genotypes of sheep breeds.
Kids ate chicken poisoned with a prion.
Prion protein null mice appear normal.
It acts as a receptor for prion proteins too.
Prion diseases have only been identified in mammals.
You never once viited him in prion.
Rabbit prion was much faster than hamster.
This is the source of the infectious prion.
Prion diseases are diseases of protein conformation.
On therapeutic possibilities for established prion diseases.

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Prion protein ligands and methods of use.
There is currently no cure for prion diseases.
A method for prion inactivation by hydrogen peroxide.
Diagnostic criteria for human prion disease.
Genetic prion diseases mostly affect older people.
For the affinity binding of a prion protein.
Prion diseases also occur in animals.
Microglia are key defenders against prion diseases.
The infectious prion did not come from a cow.
The proteinaceous material is referred to as the prion.
You catch a prion disease by ingesting infected tissue.
I want to run a mass spec on the prion fraction.
It works much like a prion subjected to steroid treatment.
Of prion replication in ganglionic cell clusters.
Mutation in the prion protein gene.
The prion study that you did.
But not one single prion.
All known prion diseases are untreatable and fatal.
He was infected with the prion variant.
Some prion diseases affect humans.
You have not been infected by a prion.
A prion is an infectious organism composed primarily of folds of protein.
This requires a prion specific antibody.
The prion is not destroyed by cooking.
This was cut short by concerns about prion disease.
Modeling prion propagation in the laboratory.
Animals lacking PrPC do not contract prion disease.
Another familial prion disease has been recently discovered.
A marburg variant virus was genetically engineered with a prion.
It is caused by a prion or protein that mutates in the body.
Prion proteins have been linked to various neurodegenerative diseases.
Antibodies recognizing prion proteins are known in the art.
Prion diseases can affect humans as well as animals.
Just try to determine the prion infection rates.
Basically a prion is a type of protein that we all have.

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