Jornal de Biomarcadores Moleculares e Diagnóstico

Novel Biomarkers and the Diagnosis of Prion Diseases

Abstract

Saima Zafar, Neelam Younus and Inga Zerr

In fatal neurodegenerative diseases, prion diseases have high risk of transmission ability and no cure and effective treatment. This abnormal folded protein disease in brain pose a serious threat to public health and the development of early diagnostic markers and new therapeutic approaches is in pronounced plea. Prion disease show infectious and incurable irrepressible nature and long period of silent incubations and nature of prion diseases, development of early diagnostic markers is in great demand to prevent a potential spread of the disease and for early diagnosis of the disease given the long incubation periods of disease. Moreover discovery of novel biomarkers can lead to development of new therapeutic targets and better understanding of the underlying pathogenesis of the Prion diseases.