Abstract
Based on C. J. Gadjusek own observations and on B. Sigurdsson proposals, they described the slow virus etiology for these entities. We state that, as far as we know nowadays, the priondemency relationship is limited to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and according to recent evidence, especially to the atypical form. The etiological approach to these entities changed around 1982-1984 when Stanley Prusiner introduced the prion concept. The entities actually considered to be of prionic origin are succinctly described, paying special attention to bovine spongiform encephalitis, colloquially called as "crazy cows". Citing Domich, there is the possibility of a greater frecuency of these entities that what is known up to these present.
References
Chandler RL. 1961. Encephalopathy in mice produced by moculation with scrapie brain material. Lancet. 1: 1378-1379
Cuillé J. & PL. Chelle. La maladie dite tremblante du mouton est-elle inoculable? C R Acad Sci (Paris) 936; 203: 1552-1554.
Domich L. 1996. Patologías tipo prión. Rev Neurol (Barc) 24 (131): 785-802
Duffy Ph. et al. 1974. Possible person to person transmission of Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease. New England J Med. 291: 692
Gajdusek DC. & CJ.Gibbs, Jr. 1971. Transmission of two severe (subacute) spongiforme encephalopathy of man, kuru and CJD to new world monkey. Nature. 230: 180-191
Gajdusek DC., et al. 1977. Precautions in medical care of and in handling materials from patients with transmissible virus dementia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. New England J. Med. 297: 1253-1258
Gajdusek DC., Gibbs & M. Alpers. 1966. Experimental transmission of a Kuru-like syndorme to chimpanzes. Nature. 209: 794-796
Gibbs CJ., et al. 1968. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (spongiforme encephalopathy): transmission to the chimpanze. Science. 161: 388-389
Gibbs CJ. & D.C. Gajdusek. 1973. Experimental subacute spongiform encephalopathies in primates and other animals. Science. 82: 67-68
Gibbs CJ., Masters, Cl. & Guajdusek. 1979. Bibliography of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. NIH Publ. No., 79 Washington. 1979
Hadlow W. 1959. Scrapie and Kuru. Lancet 1. 1097: 289-290
Hadlow W., SB. Prusiner, RC. Kennedy & RE.Race. 1980. Brain tissue from persons dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob causes scrapie-like encephalopathy in goats. Ann Neurol. 8: 628-671
Klatzo I., DC. Gajdusek & V. Zigas. 1959. Pathology of Kuru. Lab Invest. 8:799-847
Liberski PP., R. Yanagihara, GAH. Wells, CJ. Gibbs & D.C. Gajdusek. 1992. Comparative ultrastructural neuropathology of Naturally occuring bovine spongiform encephalopathy and experimentally induced scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease J Comp Path. 106: 361-381
Liberski PP, R. Yanagihara, GAH Wells, CJ. Gibbs & DC. Gajdusek. 1992. Ultrastructural Pathology of axons and myelin in experimental scrapie in hamsters and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in cattle and a comparison with the Panencephalopathic type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. J Comp Path. 106: 383-398
Prusiner SB. 1982. Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause scrapie. Science. 216: 136-144
Prusiner SB. & KK. Hsiao. 1994. Human prion diseases. Ann Neurol. 35: 385-395
Prusiner SB. 1996. Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of prion diseases. TIBS 21. December. p. 482-487
Sigurdsson, B. 1954. Rida., a chronic encephalitis of sheep with general remarks on infections which develop slowly and some of their special characteristics. Br Vet J. 110: 341-354
Weissman, C. 1991, The prion's progress. Nature. 349:569-571
Zigas, V. & DC. Gajdusek. 1957. Kuru-clinical study of a new syndrome resembling paralysis agitans in natives of the eastern highlands of Australian New Guinea. Med J Aust. 2: 745.
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales