Intestinal Lymphatic Tissue Important For The Absorption And Spread Of The Scrapie Prion

Friday, January 16, 2009 - 21:14 in Health & Medicine

Scrapie is a transmissible, degenerative and ultimately fatal disease of the nervous system of sheep. The cause of the disease is a prion protein, and absorption from the intestine is assumed to be the natural route of infection. Lymphatic tissue associated with the intestine is important for the early accumulation of prion protein and its subsequent spread to the central nervous system.

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