Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

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Difference between Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek vs. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the second human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, are a group of progressive, invariably fatal, conditions that affect the brain (encephalopathies) and nervous system of many animals, including humans.

Similarities between Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy have 10 things in common (in Unionpedia): Autopsy, Cannibalism, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Fore people, Kuru (disease), National Institutes of Health, Prion, Scrapie, Stanley B. Prusiner, United States National Library of Medicine.

Autopsy

An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.

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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a universally fatal brain disorder.

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Fore people

The Fore people live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Kuru (disease)

Kuru is a very rare, incurable neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.

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Prion

Prions are misfolded proteins that are associated with several fatal neurodegenerative diseases in animals and humans.

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Scrapie

Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats.

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Stanley B. Prusiner

Stanley Benjamin Prusiner M.D (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist.

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United States National Library of Medicine

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy Comparison

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek has 75 relations, while Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy has 96. As they have in common 10, the Jaccard index is 5.85% = 10 / (75 + 96).

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