Assertion: prion | /r/Causes | disease
Facets:
value: to human
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in animals
type: OTHER
value: to animals
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in humans
type: OTHER
value: in one species
type: OTHER
value: in in
type: LOCATION
value: in plants
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Prions also cause disease in a wide variety of other animals, including scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows.
text: Virus and prion are two types of infectious particles that can cause disease in humans, animals, plants or even in bacteria.
text: Prion that causes disease in one species cannot do the same in another.
text: Thus, the PrP protein is required for prions to replicate and cause disease.
text: How prions causing disease arise in patients with sporadic forms is unknown; hypotheses include horizontal transmission of prions from humans or animals (242), somatic mutation of the PrP gene, and spontaneous conversion of PrPC into PrPSc (5, 15).
text: Whether prions are the agent which causes disease or merely a symptom caused by a different agent is still debated by a minority of researchers.
text: Whether prions cause disease or are merely a symptom resulting from a different agent is still a matter of debate and research.
text: However, scientists are still studying prions to learn their origins and how prions replicate and cause disease.
text: By so doing, they multiply and cause disease.
text: Prions are not microorganisms that cause disease but an infectious particle that cause disease –
text: Though prion causes diseases in humans and other animals, prion diseases are very rare.
text: Moreover, prion causes diseases to humans and animals while virus causes diseases to animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, protists and archaea.
text: Furthermore, virus causes diseases to animals, plants, bacteria, protists, archaea, etc. while prion causes diseases only to human and animals.
text: Prions: cause diseases that are confined to the CNS