What diseases can a CT scan detect? A bowel perforation consists of a hole that runs all the way through the bowel or large intestine. The danger is that perforation can cause peritonitis, an inflammation of the membrane lining the entire abdominal cavity. If acid from the stomach, bile or bacteria enters the cavity, then peritonitis can take place -- a life-threatening condition.
The statement that a prion is an infectious, self-reproducing protein structure is true. Prion is short for short for proteinaceous infectious particle. All known prion diseases in mammals affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue. Hope this answers the question. Comments.
'Prion' is a term first used to describe the mysterious infectious agent responsible for several neurodegenerative diseases found in mammals, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. The word itself derives from 'proteinaceous infectious particle'; it refers to the initially heretical hypothesis that the infectious agent causing those diseases consists only of protein, with no nucleic acid genome.