Prion diseases 65

Jean-Philippe Brandel.
Abstract
Prion diseases or subacute transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) are neurodegenerative diseases. The agent responsible for the disease and its transmission is a protein with an abnormal conformation, derived from a normal protein: the PrP protein. TSE exist in several forms: sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) (the most common), genetic and iatrogenic forms. Variant CJD is the only form linked to bovine spongiform encepha¬lopathy. Despite therapeutic trials carried out since the early 2000s, no treatment has yet demonstrated its effectiveness.
March 2025
La revue du praticien n° Tome 75 / n° 16 PDF