Prions are misfolded proteins which characterize several fatal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and many other animals.
Prion may also refer to:
Science edit
- Fungal prion, a prion that infects fungal hosts
- Prion protein, the human gene encoding for the major prion protein PrP (for prion protein)
- Prion diseases, a group of progressive and invariably fatal symptoms affecting the brain (encephalopathies) and nervous system of many animals
- Prion pruritus, an intense itching during the prodromal period of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- Prion pseudoknot, a predicted RNA pseudoknot structure found in prion protein mRNA
Other uses edit
- Prion (bird)
- Prion Humour Classics, a series of novels published by Prion Books in the UK
- Prion Island, located in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia
- National Prion Clinic (UK), a British specialist prion disease clinic
- Eran Prion (born 1974), Israeli musician and music producer
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