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- Authored by a team of leading researchers and clinicians
- Updated knowledge and concepts on pathogenic prion proteins and prion diseases
- Present state-of the art findings and hypotheses beyond prions and prion diseases
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Volume II features a variety of animal and human prion diseases, including the newly-identified atypical forms of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie in animals, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy in humans, prions in the environment, Tau pathology in human prion disease, transmission of the disease by blood transfusion, mammalian and non-mammalian models, conventional and advanced diagnoses, prion-specific antibodies, as well as decontamination of prions and development of therapeutics of prion diseases, such as the application of immunomodulation. This volume provides up-to-date knowledge about the etiology, pathogenesis, classification, histopathological, and clinical aspects of the highly publicized animal and human prion diseases.
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Book Title: Prions and Diseases
Book Subtitle: Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment
Editors: Wen-Quan Zou, Pierluigi Gambetti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5338-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5337-6Published: 08 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9397-7Published: 13 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5338-3Published: 08 November 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 298
Topics: Neurosciences, Human Physiology, Neurology, Protein Science, Animal Physiology, Biochemistry, general