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Prions : Current Progress in Advanced Research.
Prions are infectious, self-propagating proteinaceous agents that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans, scrapie in sheep and goats, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle. In recent years, great strides have been made in the unders...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Portland :
Caister Academic Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Preface; Ch 01: Introduction; Ch 02: Prion Protein and the Family Members, Doppel and Shadoo; Ch 03: Function of Cellular Prion Protein; Ch 04: Effect of Microglial Inflammation in Prion Disease; Ch 05: Molecular Mechanisms of Prion Diseases; Ch 06: Inactivation of Prion and Endotoxins; Ch 07: Clinical Aspects of Human Prion Diseases; Ch 08: Immunological Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Prion Diseases; Ch 09: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Scrapie; Ch 10: Chronic Wasting Disease and Other Animal Prion Diseases; Ch 11: Future Prospects; Index.