{"id":60,"date":"2021-08-10T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:59:20","slug":"is-a-specific-test-being-developed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/is-a-specific-test-being-developed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a specific test being developed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists are currently working on specific laboratory tests which could identify CJD. One of these tests examines a patient\u2019s cerebrospinal fluid in order to detect a particular protein marker. This protein marker indicates neuronal degeneration and therefore can help to diagnose patient\u2019s who are showing symptoms of CJD. This test is comparatively much safer than a brain biopsy, it is also easier to carry out.\u00a0 This test is currently being developed alongside other tests for the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are currently working on specific laboratory tests which could identify CJD. One of these tests examines a patient\u2019s cerebrospinal fluid in order to detect a particular protein marker. This protein marker indicates neuronal degeneration and therefore can help to diagnose patient\u2019s who are showing symptoms of CJD. This test is comparatively much safer than a brain biopsy, it is also easier to carry out.\u00a0 This test is currently being developed alongside other tests for the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bsereview.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}