1) Those included increased monitoring for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and a review of livestock practices, which led to the new proposal.

2) Have any of your blood relatives ever had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

3) Methods Clinical manifestations of 11 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease misdiagnosed in the early stage were reviewed.

4) Prions cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or "mad cow disease" in cattle) by rearranging the structure of normal proteins in their own image.

5) Design - Screening study of patients suspected clinically to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other neurodegenerative diseases by prion protein gene analysis.

6) The gene-silencing technique has been used to prolong the lives of mice infected with scrapie,[http:///creutzfeldt-jakob disease.html] a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

7) Potentially, it also could target known biomarkers for a wide variety of diseases, including HIV, cancer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a degenerative neurological disorder.

8) Prions are infectious and cause a range of neurodegenerative diseases including BSE, also called mad cow disease, and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

9) In humans, eating meat products contaminated with the illness is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady.

10) In people, eating meat products contaminated(17) with BSE is linked to more than 150 deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain, from a deadly human nerve disorder, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

11) Researchers have also made some headway in treating a human prion disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which today is uniformly fatal.

12) Prions cause a number of fatal diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.