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FFI
(redirected from Fatal familial insomnia)

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FFIFuel Freedom International
FFIForeign Function Interface
FFIFor Further Information
FFIFauna and Flora International
FFIFatal Familial Insomnia
FFIForces Françaises de l'Intérieur (WWII, French Resistance Army)
FFIFaith Freedom International
FFIFrench Forces of the Interior (WWII)
FFIFriendship Force International (Florida)
FFIForest Frontiers Initiative
FFIForsvarets Forsknings Institutt
FFIFull Field Investigation
FFIFailure to Follow Instructions
FFIFree from Infection
FFIFormal Financial Institution
FFIFamily Firm Institute, Inc.
FFIFlexible Film Isolator
FFIFraction of Faults Isolated
FFIFutures Foundation International
FFIFreight Forwarder Instructions (FIATA form)
FFIFiber Fuels Institute
FFIFlame Failure Indicator
FFIFraction of Failures Isolated


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This includes CJD, which has been caused accidentally by medical procedures, as well as Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome (GSS), rare forms of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy known to be caused by genetic mutations of the prion protein.
It Can Happen Here by Rampton, Sheldon / E
Scientists explained this result by saying that blood cells in these mice don't contain any normal PrP and therefore can't carry the infection to the brain, says Pierluigi Gambetti at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who studies an inherited prion disease called fatal familial insomnia, which makes people unable to sleep and eventually causes death.
Polluted blood fails to deliver infection by Strauss, Evelyn / Science News
For example, people with fatal familial insomnia and those with inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have an altered amino acid in PrP at position 178.
Prying into prions; a twisted tail of an ordinary protein causing ... by Pennisi, Elizabeth / Science News
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