Posted on 11/28/2015 5:22:13 PM PST by wgmalabama
That’s right. It’s a supposedly a committed protein.
These plus CWD and kuru, and others are believed to be caused by the same type of prion, a malformed protein, that somehow manages to replicate itself without the benefit of DNA. The lengthy incubation period would make the use of this as a weapon quite difficult.
Is a Prion like 4 wheel drive Prius?
The Fore people,.....had a long-standing tradition of mortuary feasts â eating the dead............Uhhh, who got the Fore skin?
Ping?
I had to read up on your condition. I am sorry you had to go through that.
yes, sometimes I will spend three days trying to remember an actor’s name lol. i finally do.
Christian Slater took me a week :)
the sensory symptoms right now are much lousier than the cognitive issues.
i hope you are doing well.
Think of it in terms of a code, an organic “hack” per se. It needs an organism to copy, though the production of it seems to merely involve the folding of an existing protein.
I believe the means by which this has been/is kept in check naturally is through fire and the inherent tendency of creatures to not eat their own kind.
Factory feeding of brain and spinal materials to animals seems to have gotten it spread about. As I recall reading an article a while back on it, the CWD in the Elk herds of the Rockies likely originated from mink farms feeding sheep offal to minks, some of which escaped.
As it is persistent, probably the best way to eradicate it in a given ruminant area is repeated burning of the ground cover to destroy buildup in grasses from droppings over time.
That’s funny, if you “had” it, you’d be dead.
Transplants will pass it, and instruments used in them not flame or ultra high temperature sterilized.
Doing fine, but sometimes thinking of one of my 19 grandchildren's name, I come up with just a plain blank, or a name that sounds almost right, but isn't. That can be kind of scary.
About two days ago the name of my son's sixth child, a girl, was a gap. Then after really trying, I remembered it was short and stated with "L". I thought "Lucy" but I knew it was only close. Yesterday, I was reading a note from him, and it was "Lily."
On the other hand, I used to do the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle, with my own personal rule that it all has to come out of my head--no research, or dictionary, or other cheat. Usually I could either complete or get within three or four words, and often finish it.
I had let this habit die out before the craniotomy, but about a month ago, I thought this would be a good general test of memory, so I tried it again. You know what? I completely finished it in about two hours. That gave me a comforting feeling.
I think a lot of my problem is just that I'm getting too old.
Be encouraged that your activity on FR that I've noticed cuts across several topics and requires reasonable critical thinking ought to be a good sign to you. Keep it up!
Nineteen? You must be from the heartland :)
I miss the big numbers.
my grandmother had 10 kids, my mother had five and brother and sisters have a couple each.
It only took two generations from Sicily to do that. what a shame.
Great news on the puzzle :)
Yea, like I said, the sensory symptoms are much worse than the cognitive.
19. You have quite a legacy. That’s nice
brains protected this tribe from brain disease, wgmalabama wrote:
Except some prions can be introduced to the soil and taken into plants. I doubt the deer in the northern Midwest are eating each otherâs brains but yet itâs spreading into others states
UW found that clay in certain areas of Wisconsin seemed to foster CWD in White Tail deer.
There’s another article that sez the opposite. Thanks THWP.
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