Resistance to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in sheep can be influenced ... encephalopathies (BSE), whereas the ARR allele is associated with resistance to the conversion of PrP to ...

Certain types of sheep offal should be banned from sale to protect shoppers from the dangers of BSE, a former Government adviser said yesterday. Current safeguards to protect consumers from the ...

An abnormal form of the PrP protein ... Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), sheep scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) of humans are examples of prion diseases.

Their study suggests that if BSE has passed from cows to sheep and is spreading freely through ... the maximum number of deaths from vCJD - the human form of mad cow disease - would treble to ...

In 1996, 10 patients were identified with a new form of CJD (vCJD), which differed ... Unexpectedly, vCJD, BSE and sheep scrapie all transmitted efficiently to the transgenic mice expressing ...