Advancing Prion Science - Guidance for the National Prion Research Program (Paperback, New)

In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicinea (TM)s Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and investment to the Department of Defensea (TM)s National Prion Research Program (NPRP). Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called prion diseases, are invariably fatal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. To develop antemortem diagnostics or therapies for TSEs, the committee concludes that NPRP should invest in basic research specifically to elucidate the structural features of prions, the molecular mechanisms of prion replication, the mechanisms of TSE pathogenesis, and the physiological function of prionsa (TM) normal cellular isoform. Advancing Prion Science provides the first comprehensive reference on present knowledge about all aspects of TSEsa "from basic science to the U.S. research infrastructure, from diagnostics to surveillance, and from prevention to treatment.

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2004
First published:	March 2004
Authors:	Committee on Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science • Medical Follow-Up Agency • Institute of Medicine • National Academy of Sciences
Editors:	Rick Erdtmann • Laura B. Sivitz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-09060-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology
LSN:	0-309-09060-1
Barcode:	9780309090605

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