The result is a chain reaction in which more and more protein ends up as prions.
这个链式反应使越来越多的蛋白质变成朊病毒。
Nerve cells containing the prions stop working.
含有朊病毒的神经细胞失去正常功能,
The sufferer endures memory loss, personality changes and spontaneous, jerky bodilymovements.
罹患者出现记忆减退、人格改变和自发的躯体急速抽动等症状,
Eventually, the disease kills him.
最后患者死亡。
A drug to treat CJD would therefore be welcome.
所以,能够治疗CJD的药物将大受青睐。
And chemicals that seem either to prevent the misfolding, or to help the body clear awaymisfolded molecules, do, indeed, exist.
能阻止分子错误折叠或帮助机体清除错误折叠分子的化学药品似乎确实存在,
The problem is turning at least one of those chemicals into an effective medicine.
困难在于如何用至少一种这样的化学药品进行有效治疗。
Adam Renslo of the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues have beentrying to do so.
旧金山加利福尼亚大学的Adam Renslo与其同事一直在进行将化学药品用于治疗CJD的尝试,
【2015考研英语阅读克雅氏病】相关文章:
最新
2016-10-18
2016-10-11
2016-10-11
2016-10-08
2016-09-30
2016-09-30