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Prions and Diseases

Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment

Gebonden Engels 2012 2013e druk 9781461453376
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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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ISBN13:9781461453376
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:295
Uitgever:Springer New York
Druk:2013

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<p>Chapter 1    Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy<br>Gianluigi Zanusso, Salvatore Monaco</p><p>Chapter 2    Classical and Atypical Scrapie in Sheep and Goats<br>Christine Fast, Martin H. Groschup</p><p>Chapter 3 Chronic wasting disease and the development of research models<br>Glenn Telling</p><p>Chapter 4    Sporadic Human Prion Disease<br>Pierluigi Gambetti</p><p>Chapter 5    Environmentally-acquired Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy<br>Paul Brown</p><p>Chapter 6    Prions in the Environment<br>Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Jason C. Bartz, Samuel E. Saunders</p><p>Chapter 7    The Spectrum of Tau Pathology in Human Prion Disease<br>Gabor G. Kovacs, Herbert Budka</p><p>Chapter 8    Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Blood Transfusion<br>Alexander H. Peden, Mark W. Head, James W. Ironside</p><p>Chapter 9   Species Barriers in Prion Disease<br>Suzette A. Priola</p><p>Chapter 10    Transgenic Mice Modelling<br>Abigail B. Diack, Rona Wilson, Enrico Cancellotti, Barry Bradford, Matthew Bishop, Jean C. Manson</p><p>Chapter 11  Prion Transmission Studies in Transgenic Mice<br>Qingzhong Kong<br> <br>Chapter 12  Alternative Models of Prion Diseases<br>Pedro Fernandez-Funez, Edward Málaga-Trillo, Diego E. Rincon-Limas</p><p>Chapter 13  Diagnosis of Prion Disease: Conventional Approaches<br>Inga Zerr, Joanna Gawinecka, Katharina Stoeck, Maren Breithaupt</p><p>Chapter 14  Quaking-induced Conversion (QuIC) Assays for the Detection and Diagnosis of Prion Diseases<br>Jason M. Wilham, Christina D. Orrù, Sarah Vascellari, Andrew G. Hughson, Byron Caughey</p><p>Chapter 15 The Tyr-Tyr-Arg Prion-Specific Epitope: Update and Context<br>T. Dean Airey, and Neil R. Cashman</p><p>Chapter 16  Overview on Treatment of Prion Diseases and Decontamination of Prions<br>Richard Knight</p><p>Chapter 17  Immunomodulation<br />Thomas Wisniewski, Fernando Goñi</p>

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