Prions and Diseases
Autor: | Wen-Quan Zou, Pierluigi Gambetti |
---|---|
EAN: | 9781461453383 |
eBook Format: | |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 08.11.2012 |
Untertitel: | Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment |
Kategorie: | |
Schlagworte: | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Prion protein bovine spongiform encephalopathy chronic wasting disease prion diseases prions scrapie |
287,83 €*
Versandkostenfrei
Die Verfügbarkeit wird nach ihrer Bestellung bei uns geprüft.
Bücher sind in der Regel innerhalb von 1-2 Werktagen abholbereit.
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.