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Scientists find link between brain wasting, heart problems
By JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau - 07/07/06
HELENA — Montana scientists have discovered that brain-wasting killers like mad cow disease can also affect the hearts of its victims, infusing heart muscle with waxy deposits making it harder for infected hearts to beat.
In a paper published today in the online edition of the journal Science, researchers at Montana ’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton , showed that special laboratory mice infected with scrapie a brain-wasting disease in sheep also had large deposits of the scrapie agent in their hearts.
Scrapie is one of a family of brain-wasting diseases, including chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in people associated with twisted, malformed proteins called prions. The prions congregate in the brains of victims and are associated with Swiss-cheese like holes in brain tissue that are always fatal.
Exactly what causes the diseases, known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is unclear, although one hypothesis holds the proteins themselves cause infection.
RML’s Bruce Chesebro, a virologist and lead author of the paper, said the discovery is the first time prion proteins have been shown to cause heart problems and will probably prompt other researchers to start looking at the heart in future prion research.
“We don’t have a clue as to why this deposited in the heart, as opposed to the liver,” he said. “We don’t really understand that.”
The study involved special mice. Prions are misshapen proteins. But that same protein when it’s not twisted up is common in the body, although researchers aren’t exactly what role healthy prion proteins play.
Scientists engineered the mice in Chesebro’s experiment to have a different kind of healthy prion protein. That way, when the mice are inoculated with an infectious brain-wasting disease, like scrapie, the resulting prions will behave in a certain way.
Chesebro said that at this point, it’s not clear if the deposits of prion in the hearts of the mice are related to their unique make-up, or if it’s common in many victims of prion diseases, but no one ever thought to look.
“We have no evidence in this paper that prions can invade human hearts, but we’re interested in investigating those questions,” he said.
The prion deposits formed a special kind of waxy, protein plaques called “amyloids.”
Alzheimer’s disease is also an amyloid disease because it is associated with waxy, protein plaques in the brain.
Amyloid heart disease is also found in people, although it is very rare.
Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the arm of the National Institutes of Health that oversees RML, noted that connection with prion heart disease.
“Although much work remains to be done, the diseased hearts seen in this mouse study have similarities to human amyloid heart disease, which is potentially significant,” Fauci said in a statement.
The Montana scientists conducted the experiment with researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in California .
Whooping cough endemic among UK children
Last Updated: 2006-07-07 10:01:14 -0400 (Reuters Health)
LONDON - Whooping cough may be endemic among young children in Britain where nearly 40 percent of youngsters who visit their family doctor with a persistent cough have evidence of the infection, researchers reported Friday.
After studying 172 children who had been treated for a cough lasting more than two weeks, they found that 64 showed signs of whooping cough although nearly 86 percent had been immunized against the illness.
"Previous research in several countries has shown that pertussis is an endemic disease among adolescents and adults," said Anthony Harnden of Oxford University.
"Our research suggests that in the United Kingdom pertussis is also endemic among younger school-age children."
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a contagious bacterial infection of the respiratory tract, easily spread by coughing and sneezing.
Most children are vaccinated against the disease, which was once a major cause of lung and brain damage and even death. It is still a serious health problem in poor countries. In 2002, an estimated 294,000 people worldwide died of the illness, according to the World Health Organization.
Research has shown that neither infection nor immunization offers life-long immunity against pertussis.
Harnden and his team, who reported the findings in the British Medical Journal, said family doctors should be aware that any child with a persistent cough could have whooping cough.
Children with pertussis have a cough that lasts for about 16 weeks, Harnden added.
