
Infectious Agents | Viruses, Prions, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, and Helminths (Worms)
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Prion Proteins and Stem Cell Regeneration
Prion proteins are incurred by a gene called p r n p, and they're transcribed and translated normally. The normal ones we call p r p ar on tha chor of the ris, doesn't matter. They don't know exactly what these do. Na, some ma byosiative stress management. Yet it seems to, at least in the brain, wellth let's say, the nervous system,. It seems that it has maybe an effect on milination, on maintenance of memory, on maintaining sinapses. But what ki of that? Relly young cocknot copy a copper take e and stem cell renewal? That's some of the thoughts at oont do, which
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