Prions and Diseases Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Zou, Wen-Quan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gambetti, Pierluigi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Classical and Atypical Scrapie in Sheep and Goats
• Sporadic Human Prion Disease
• Environmentally-acquired Transmissible Spongiform
• Prions in the Environment
• The Spectrum of Tau Pathology in Human Prion Disease
• Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Blood Transfusion
• Species Barriers in Prion Disease
• Transgenic Mice Modelling
• Prion Transmission Studies in Transgenic Mice
• Alternative Models of Prion Diseases
• Diagnosis of Prion Disease: Conventional Approaches
• Quaking-induced Conversion (QuIC) Assays for the Detection and Diagnosis of Prion Diseases
• Overview on Treatment of Prion Diseases and Decontamination of Prions
• Immunomodulation.