🧵 Good sources for learning about prions?
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:12:03 UTC No. 16450950
I'm a vet student and this is the subject that has been fascinating me for some time, in particular it's transmission and replication. Any good books on this subject?
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:20:58 UTC No. 16450970
Prions are so weird, we've genetically engineered mice to not produce prions, and the effects weren't substantial for overall quality of life
For some reason not producing prions increases your chance of developing some neurodegenerative disorders and makes you stupid on average, but their function neurologically isn't well understood, so maybe they're neuroprotective against diseases like Parkinson's
I don't know any good literature, but a lot of new studies coming out show there may be enzymatic methods to destroy prions studying how fungus deal with them, since apparently misfolded prions are more common in some species of fungi, and they've developed methods of destroying them
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:22:48 UTC No. 16450973
>>16450950
there is only 1 known prion disease in humans (animals too?), and people are still trying to understand what exactly is happening with that shit.
the best resource would be scientific papers.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:25:50 UTC No. 16450976
>>16450950
Self experimentation.
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:38:10 UTC No. 16453622
Mark Purdey
he died for exposing the truth
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:12:25 UTC No. 16455592
>>16450950
look at the real cause of chronic wasting disease in deer and what they are eating
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:48:28 UTC No. 16455610
Defunct alien bioweapon
OP at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:50:15 UTC No. 16455828
>>16455592
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl
You mean this article? Also, thanks to everyone replying to this thread, even schizo replies are welcome since at least one professor I asked what skeptical of misfolded protein actually being an infectious agent
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:20:22 UTC No. 16455890
>>16450950
I would rather not think about them
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:04:29 UTC No. 16455942
>>16455828
Do look up purdey's work.
He was an organic farmer that was curious about the real cause of BSE in the UK and outraged at some of the policies they were trying to justify because of it, he concluded that the actual cause was an organophosphate insecticide called phosmet that the government had mandated as a way to control warbleflys was the cause. The entire notion of british beef somehow being dangerous was completely farcicle.
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:06:06 UTC No. 16455945
>>16455942
Ok, and did he have evidence or did he just conclude it?
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:46:28 UTC No. 16455974
>>16455945
I don't remember, but if you can find his writings anywhere then you will have an avenue to explore we he actually founf and documented.
There might be court documents too I vaguelly remember him bringing a legal case against the givernment.
I hink he said that prions were natural molecules and part of an energy transport chain but because they were having their copper ions stripped they were then overloaded by ultraviolet light which led to a sort of energetic cascade through the neurosystem he said this is why cwd is seen in areas of high uv and something locking up the copper tipped prions
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:33:36 UTC No. 16456141
>>16455945
>and did he have evidence
No. And BSE continued after phosmet was phased out. And many other places with high phosmet use had no BSE. He had already been studying organophosphates because of other health concerns when the BSE scare started, so he was just seeing what he wanted to see.
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:56:34 UTC No. 16456250
>>16455974
https://www.ourcivilisation.com/mad
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:43:22 UTC No. 16456400
>>16456141
About what I expected, yeah. Thanks, Anonymous.
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:49:22 UTC No. 16456783
i think it's weird that we still give women HCG injections when they are trying to get pregnant, and they get HCG from the urine of pregnant women. and prions are present in the urine. and they are co-purified with the HCG.
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 13:39:40 UTC No. 16458150
>>16450973
>there is only 1 known prion disease in humans
Sure? So kuru == CJD?