Numerous strategies and potential targets for treating transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been suggested, with the most studied target being the inhibition of PrP Sc accumulation.

Satisfying one of the most important principles of Koch (a set of criteria used to prove the infectious nature of a disease), kuru was then shown to be transmissible from human brain tissue to a ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...