...-propagation ( 1 ). These proteins are termed prions. Uncontrolled self-propagation of prions results in their accumulation to large aggregates that initiate brain damaging processes ( 2 ). Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) were the first recognized human...

... The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne 2002; Duke 2006); Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (Duke 2006; Ateneo de Manila 2007); and The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists...

...Pawel P. Liberski; Beata Sikorska; Shirley Lindenbaum; Lev G. Goldfarb; Catriona McLean; Johannes A. Hainfellner; Paul Brown Anthropological studies by Robert Glasse and Shirley Lindenbaum soon indicated that the genetic hypothesis was not tenable. Many kuru victims were not closely related...

...Oxford University Press Important discoveries can be made without access to advanced technologies. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek kuru William Hadlow American Heart Journal journal cannibalism Creutzfeldt Jakob disease epidemic kuru Gajdusek Daniel Carleton Hadlow William kuru National...

.... However as ‘synchronous’ forms of the current experiences of contemporary San art scene’s actors, the presence of rock art images is not without effect on it. Focusing on the Kuru Art Project (Ghanzi District, Botswana), this chapter explores how the presence of rock art images may affect and re-orient...

...This chapter discusses the role played by the kings of the Kuru Dynasty in facilitating, if not sponsoring, the process of preparation of the Saṁhitās of the Vedic texts. This process may have stabilized the oral texts of the Vedas, essentially in a north-central dialect of Sanskrit, partly...

... as several partially penetrant mutations are recognized. Several symptomatic treatments may be useful. Early involvement of specialist multidisciplinary services and palliative care are recommended. prion CJD kuru PRNP PrP bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy...

... frequent. This chapter reviews the molecular theory of prions and the pathology, clinical presentation, and management of various prion diseases. Prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Fatal insomnia Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome Kuru prion disorders Creutzfeldt Jakob disease fatal...

...This chapter discusses the role on epidemiology in public health. It focuses on four major public health areas — smallpox, kuru, injuries, and health behaviours — in which the contributions of epidemiological findings have been crucial in improving health. Cochrane A L Doll R Morris J Pemberton...

... known as variably protease-sensitive prionopathy has been recently identified. Familial prion diseases include familial CJD, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, and fatal familial insomnia. Over 40 different PRNP mutations have been identified. Acquired prion diseases include Kuru; iatrogenic CJD...

... but not between organisms as in the prion disorders discussed in this chapter. Molecular theory Prion disease Histopathology Fatal insomnia Kuru molecular theory of prions prion disease prions PRNP gene mutations transmissible spongiform encephalopathies TSEs Creutzfeldt Jakob disease CJD diphasic waves...

... PRNP CJD vCJD VPSPr kuru zoonosis iatrogenic transmission public health Alzheimer’s disease AD amyloid β Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease CJD prion diseases prion hypothesis PRNP prion protein gene risk factors variably protease sensitive prionopathy VPSPr variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cCJD...

... pathogenesis—seeded protein polymerization—is relevant to other neurodegenerative diseases, notably Alzheimer’s disease. prion Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease Gerstmann–Sträussler syndrome kuru fatal familial insomnia spongiform encephalopathy neurodegeneration protein misfolding amyloid bovine spongiform...

...Early Painted Grey Ware relates to the Kuru kingdom. Megalithic graves of Central Asian origin appear around 800 bce, signaling the arrival of “pale” (paṇḍu) people with foreign customs (polyandry). Unknown to the Veda, the Pāṇḍavas (and the Mahābhārata) are first...

... to prions. The current family of prion diseases includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), fatal insomnia (FI), variant CJD (vCJD), and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr). Kuru is a disease of historical interest that was transmitted through...

...This content is only available as a PDF. Kuru sorcery observations aspects anthropology necessity Compared with other aspects of anthropology (reviewed by Gardner and Weiner, Chapter 5), medical anthropology is very underdeveloped in Papua New Guinea. Although a large body of information...