Prion Infectivity Found In White And Brown Fat Tissues Of Mice

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. The study appears December 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect humans as well as wild and domestic animals.

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Filed under: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease on December 6th, 2008