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|q1=What is a prion (PrP)?
 
|q1=What is a prion (PrP)?
 
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A prion (PrP) is a protein that occurs normally in the nervous and lymphoreticular tissues.  When is changes conformation (PrP<sup>sc</sup>/PrP<sup>Res</sup>) it becomes an infectious agent and causes degeneration of neurological tissue.
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A prion (PrP) is a protein that occurs normally in the nervous and lymphoreticular tissues.  When it changes conformation (PrP<sup>sc</sup>/PrP<sup>Res</sup>) it becomes an infectious agent and causes degeneration of neurological tissue.
|l1=Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy#Introduction
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|l1=Prion Disease#Aetiology
 
|q2=How are cattle exposed to BSE?
 
|q2=How are cattle exposed to BSE?
 
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Donkey, Bureaucrats
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