Prions and Diseases : Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment Paperback / softback
Edited by Wen-Quan Zou, Pierluigi Gambetti
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:298 pages, X, 298 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:18/11/2012
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- ISBN:9781489993977
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:298 pages, X, 298 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:18/11/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781489993977