Prions and Diseases: Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment

Zou, Wen-Quan; Gambetti, Pierluigi

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.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2012-11-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781461453376

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5338-3

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 298