عنوان

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies :

(Number (ISBN

3642765408

(Number (ISBN

3642765424

(Number (ISBN

9783642765407

(Number (ISBN

9783642765421

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b542618

Title Proper

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Scrapie, BSE and Related Human Disorders

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Bruce W. Chesebro.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1991

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

.

Series Title

Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 172.

Text of Note

The Human Spongiform Encephalopathies: Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and the Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Syndrome --;Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy --;Purification of Scrapie Agents: How Far Have We Come? --;The Scrapie Fibril Protein and Its Cellular Isoform --;Ultrastructural Studies of Prions --;In Vitro Expression and Biosynthesis of Prion Protein --;Prion Protein Genes: Evolutionary and Functional Aspects --;Scrapie Strain Variation and Its Implications --;Evidence for Biological and Structural Diversity Among Scrapie Strains --;Genetics of Prion Diversity and Host Susceptibility --;Natural Transmission and Genetic Control of Susceptibility of Sheep to Scrapie --;The Scrapie Agent In Vitro --;The Scrapie Agent: 'A Virus by Any Other Name' --;Novel Properties and Biology of Scrapie Prions --;Identifying and Mapping Changes in Gene Expression Involved in the Neuropathology of Scrapie and Alzheimer's Disease --;Search for a Transmissible Agent in Alzheimer's Disease: Studies of Human Buffy Coat.

Text of Note

Transmission between humans was originally reco- gnized in the unique epidemiology of kuru in New Guinea tribesmen, and concern about transmission from animals to humans has re-emerged as a result of the current epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in dairy cattle in Great Britain.

Medicine.

Microbiology.

Neurosciences.

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Book number

edited by Bruce W. Chesebro.

Bruce W Chesebro

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[Book]

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