APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative brain disorders that affect both humans and animals. They have long incubation periods, progress rapidly once symptoms develop and are always fatal.

Detailed explanation-2: -BSE possibly originated as a result of feeding cattle meat-and-bone meal that contained BSE-infected products from a spontaneously occurring case of BSE or scrapie-infected sheep products. Scrapie is a prion disease of sheep.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prion diseases are transmissible, untreatable, and fatal brain diseases of mammals. Their cause is highly unusual: The host’s normal prion protein can, for unknown reasons, malfunction and assemble into structured aggregates called prions that cause infectious brain disease.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also called mad cow disease; this is the only type that can spread to humans. Chronic wasting disease. Scrapie. Transmissible mink encephalopathy. Feline spongiform encephalopathy. Ungulate spongiform encephalopathy (found in deer and related animals)