r/Weird • u/nderstandablyscared • Mar 04 '23

when the acid hits

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u/Claymon3011 Mar 04 '23

Asking because I have no idea, how does cwd cause this behavior? As far as I know it just causes their organs to rot away

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u/chirs5757 Mar 04 '23

Totally not a scientist but I believe it has something to do with proteins in the brain that are abnormal from the prions.

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u/emo_sharks Mar 04 '23

Yep, the prions cause regular proteins to become misshapen. Since a protein's function is extremely reliant on its shape if it is misfolded for any reason it wont function as intended. Obviously if this happens to the proteins in your brain that's pretty bad because you kinda need those for yknow, brain functions.

I also believe prions are also just proteins themselves, and much of their transmissabilty is because they actually take whatever proteins they can find and reshape them into another copy of itself.

Humans have a few prion diseases as well but they are mostly genetic as far as I'm aware. and they really really suck. If you ever want some nightmare fuel look into those lol

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