Creutzfield_Jakob_Disease

Creutzfield Jakob Disease Who would of thought that eating hamburgers, steaks and drinking milk could produce an epidemic disease' These types of food are frequently eaten for their appealing tastes and nutritional values. The discovery of Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (CJD) has been a long and remarkable one. The cause of this disease is a mutated prion protein within the brain that can be either inherited or acquired. These mutations create sponge like holes that destroy the brain. As a result, the disorder gives both behavioural and muscular problems to infected individuals Experiments and discoveries to this disease have led to a further understanding of the diversity of proteins. In the 1960s, D. Carleton Gadjusek studied the behaviour of a native population in Papua, New Guinea. This population had been eating the brains of dead relatives and as a result, contracted a fatal neurodegenerative disease. When autopsies were taken from the population who died, they appeared to have a distinct pathology. The central brain tissue resembled a sponge with a lot of regions containing microscopic holes. The results of this disease appeared similar to persons affected with CJD. In 1968, D. Carleton Gadjusek injected an infected biopsy of brain with this disorder into a protein, disease, mutated, prion, structure, normal, proteins, amino, interactions, prions, molecule, cells, acids, chain, both, result, within, same, mice, intermolecular, brain, bonds, thought, signals, secondary, scientists, primary, polypeptide, one, known, infected, immune, hydrogen, activities, version, vcjd