During atherosclerosis, lipid-rich plaques are formed in large- and medium-sized arteries, which can reduce blood flow to tissues. This situation becomes particularly precarious when a plaque develops ...

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RESULTS: In the adventitia, the numbers of lymphocytes and microvessels/mm² were 69.5±88.3 and 60.9± 32.1 in culprit lesions and 16.4 ± 21.1 and 44.3±16.1 in stable lesions (p<0.05); within the ...

unibo.it Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy and the prognostic value of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests across prion disease subtypes. Methods We used a single-molecule immunoassay ...

Read more below! Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare, fatal and rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by abnormal prion proteins. Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles ...

Miniature blue plaques have been placed around the Georgian House drawing attention to the fact that a previous occupier of the home was a wealthy slave owner. The blue plaques are stickers which ...

17 Academic Respiratory Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Professor Nick A Maskell, Academic Respiratory Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of ...

Despite this mix, only AAP councillors’ names appear on the plaques in their wards, sidelining opposition members. Congress councillor Dilraj Singh of Ward number 54 voiced his displeasure ...

The Foods Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed the risk to food safety in the UK after a single case of mad cow disease was confirmed on a farm. The case of atypical Bovine Spongiform ...

Objective To review clinical and investigation findings in patients referred to a specialist prion clinic who were suspected to have sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) and yet were found to ...

In a report out this week, scientists describe a woman who died from an incurable prion disease caught roughly 50 years earlier. Doctors detailed the unusual case in a paper published Wednesday in ...