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Researcher identifies substances that could prevent BSE
Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 15:27 JST
TOKYO — A Japanese scientist said Thursday she has identified two substances that prevent the production of an abnormal protein believed to cause mad cow disease and its human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The finding by Naoko Iwanami, a researcher at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, is expected to be applied in developing preventive medicine for the brain-destroying disease.
The substances — sodium copper chlorophyllin and sodium iron chlorophyllin — are chemical compounds that are close in composition to chlorophyll and are considered safe for consumption. Mad cow disease is caused when a prion protein with an abnormal structure gets attached to a normal prion in the brain, turns into an abnormal prion and multiplies. The substances prevent the abnormal prion from attaching to the normal one. (Kyodo News)
Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 15:27 JST
TOKYO — A Japanese scientist said Thursday she has identified two substances that prevent the production of an abnormal protein believed to cause mad cow disease and its human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The finding by Naoko Iwanami, a researcher at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, is expected to be applied in developing preventive medicine for the brain-destroying disease.
The substances — sodium copper chlorophyllin and sodium iron chlorophyllin — are chemical compounds that are close in composition to chlorophyll and are considered safe for consumption. Mad cow disease is caused when a prion protein with an abnormal structure gets attached to a normal prion in the brain, turns into an abnormal prion and multiplies. The substances prevent the abnormal prion from attaching to the normal one. (Kyodo News)
