2006年07月13日
ENS美國，加州，拉荷亞報導；謝芳怡編譯；莫聞審校
美國加州斯克雷普斯研究所（Scripps Research Institute）的科學家最近研究發現，引發致命腦部疾病（包括狂牛症與人類感染病變）的毒蛋白，同樣也會對老鼠造成心臟損害。此一研究發現，提高了毒蛋白也會引起心臟感染的可能性，而這些毒蛋白都可透過血液來傳播。
Mad Cow Disease Agent Causes Heart Damage in Mice
Prions - the same disease agents that cause the fatal brain illness known as mad cow disease and its human variant - also cause a form of heart disease in mice, scientists at Scripps Research Institute have found. The finding raises the possibility that heart infection could be a type of prion disease, and that these prion diseases could travel through the blood.
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