Matthew W. Keating

Oct 9, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Christina Carlson |Samuel Thomas |Matthew W. Keating |Paulina Soto

AbstractPrions cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases and exhibit remarkable durability, which engenders a wide array of potential exposure scenarios. In chronic wasting disease of deer, elk, moose, and reindeer and in scrapie of sheep and goats, prions are transmitted via environmental routes and the ability of plants to accumulate and subsequently transmit prions has been hypothesized, but not previously demonstrated.