Prions and Diseases Volume 1, Physiology and Pathophysiology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zou, Wen-Quan (Editor), Gambetti, Pierluigi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Biochemistry.; Proteins.; Animal physiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Protein Science.; Animal Physiology.; Biochemistry, general.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), now broadly known as prion diseases, have been recognized for nearly 300 years in animals and almost 100 years in humans. However, the nature of the transmissible agent had largely remained a mystery until Stanley Prusiner discovered the infectious is...