Novel infectious agents and the central nervous system
General Material Designation
[Book]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 277 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Ciba Foundation symposium ;
Volume Designation
135
GENERAL NOTES
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
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Editors: Greg Bock and Joan Marsh
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Papers and discussions from the Symposium on Novel Infectious Agents and the Central Nervous System, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, June 30-July 2, 1987
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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The clinical neurology and epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, with special reference to iatrogenic cases / Paul Brown -- Neuropathology of unconventional virus infections : molecular pathology of spongiform change and amyloid plaque deposition / Colin L. Masters, Konrad Beyreuther -- Pathogenesis of experimental scrapie / Richard H. Kimberlin, Carol A. Walker -- Genetic aspects of unconventional virus infections : the basis of the virino hypothesis / A.G. Dickinson, G.W. Outram -- Genetic control of prion incubation period in mice / George A. Carlson, David Westaway, Patricia A. Goodman, Marilyn Peterson, Susan T. Marshall, Stanley B. Prusiner -- Developmental regulation of prion protein mRNA in brain / Michael P. Mckinley, Vishwanath R. Lingappa, Stanley B. Prusiner -- Potential involvement of retroviral elements in human dementias / Laura Manuelidis, Geoffrey Murdoch, Elias E. Manuelidis -- Scrapie, a virus-induced amyloidosis of the brain / Heino Diringer, Henk Ronald Braig, Markus Czub -- Scrapie-associated fibrils, PRP protein and the Sinc gene / James Hope, Nora Hunter -- A modified host protein model of scrapie / David C. Bolton, Paul E. Bendheim -- Properties of scrapie prion proteins in liposomes and amyloid rods / Ruth Gabizon, Michael P. McKinley, Stanley B. Prusiner -- In vitro expression of cloned PRP cDNA derived from scrapie-infected mouse brain: lack of transmission of scrapie infectivity / Byron Caughey, Richard Race, Mari Vogel, Michael Buchmeier, Bruce Chesebro -- Search for a scrapie-specific nucleic acid: a progress report / B. Oesch, D.F. Groth, S.B. Prusiner, C. Weissmann -- Pathogenesis of amyloid formation in Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome and scrapie / Henryk M. Wisniewski, Monika Wrzolek -- Novel mechanisms of degeneration of the central nervous system : prion structure and biology / Stanley B. Prusiner, Neil Stahl, Stephen J. Dearmond
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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Novel infectious agents and the central nervous system.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Central nervous system-- Diseases-- Etiology, Congresses
Prions, Congresses
Scrapie, Congresses
Central Nervous System Diseases-- etiology, Congresses
Prions, Congresses
Scrapie, Congresses
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
616
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8/3
Edition
19
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RC385
Book number
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N68
1988
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
W3
Class number
WL
300
Book Number
C161F
v
.
135
1988
Book Number
N937
1987
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Bock, Gregory
Marsh, Joan
CORPORATE BODY NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Symposium on Novel Infectious Agents and the Central Nervous System(1987 :, Ciba Foundation)