Prions and Diseases - Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment (Paperback, 2013 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	2013
Editors:	Wen-Quan Zou • Pierluigi Gambetti
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	298
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4899-9397-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > Proteins Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal physiology
LSN:	1-4899-9397-5
Barcode:	9781489993977

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