Research Catalog

Title

Prion diseases / edited by John Collinge and Mark S. Palmer.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collinge, John, MD.
• Palmer, Mark S.

Description

205 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

• The number of neurological conditions associated with the prions continues to grow. The list includes BSE and scrapie, affecting cattle and sheep respectively, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which affects humans. Prion diseases provides the most up-to-date summary of this important field, from the basic structural properties of the prion protein, through the cell biology and transgenic models of prion diseases, to the pathology of the diseases which affect animals and humans.
• This is an area of intense interest to neuroscientists, veterinary scientists, and clinicians. It has attracted significant media attention because of the potential risks to humans, which means that it is also of interest to policy-makers throughout the world.

Subject

• Prion Diseases > physiopathology
• Prion diseases in animals
• Prion diseases

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Prion diseases: an introduction / Mark S. Palmer and John Collinge -- 2. Human prion diseases / John Collinge and Mark S. Palmer -- 3. Pathology of prion diseases / James W. Ironside and Jeanne E. Bell -- 4. Animal prion diseases / Ray Bradley -- 5. Cell biology and transgenic models of prion diseases / Stanley B. Pruisner -- 6. Neurophysiology of prion disease / John G. R. Jefferys -- 7. Structural properties of the prion protein / Corinne Smith and Anthony R. Clarke -- Appendix. Alignment of amino acids of the prion protein from eleven species.

ISBN

0198547897 (hbk)

LCCN

96030984

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries