Mice and beef and brain diseases.
Can people contract neurodegenerative disease by eating beef products contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Experiments with transgenic mice give cause to think that the answer may be 'no'.
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D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D011328:Prions / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D013045:Species Specificity
D011328:Prions