Research Catalog

Title

Prion biology and diseases / edited by Stanley B. Prusiner.

Publication

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-

Description

xiii, 1050 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cold Spring Harbor monograph series, 0270-1847 ; monograph 41

Uniform Title

Cold Spring Harbor monograph series ; 41.

Subjects

• Prion diseases
• Prion Diseases
• Prions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. An Introduction to Prion Biology and Diseases / S. B. Prusiner -- 2. Development of the Prion Concept / S. B. Prusiner -- 3. Bioassays of Prions / S. B. Prusiner, J. Safar and S. J. DeArmond -- 4. Transmission and Replication of Prions / S. B. Prusiner, M. R. Scott, S. J. DeArmond and G. Carlson -- 5. Structural Studies of Prion Proteins / C. Govaerts, H. Wille, S. B. Prusiner and F. E. Cohen -- 6. Doppel, a New PrP-like Mammalian Protein / D. Westaway, L. E. Hood and S. B. Prusiner -- 7. Prions of Yeast and Filamentous Fungi: [URE3], [PSI[superscript +]], [PIN[superscript +]], and [Het-s] / R. B. Wickner, S. W. Liebman and S. J. Saupe -- 8. Knockouts, Knockins, Transgenics, and Transplants in Prion Research / E. Flechsig, J. C. Manson, R. Barron, A. Aguzzi and C. Weissmann -- 9. Transgenetic Investigations of the Species Barrier and Prion Strains / M. Scott, D. Peretz, R. M. Ridley, H. F. Baker, S. J. DeArmond and S. B. Prusiner -- 10. Cell Biology of Prions / D. A. Harris, P. J. Peters, A. Taraboulos, V. Lingappa, S. J. DeArmond and S. B. Prusiner -- 11. Scrapie, Chronic Wasting Disease, and Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy / S. B. Prusiner, E. Williams, J.-L. Laplanche and M. Shinagawa -- 12. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Related Diseases / G. A. H. Wells and J. W. Wilesmith -- 13. Infectious and Sporadic Prion Diseases / R. G. Will, M. P. Alpers, D. Dormont and L. B. Schonberger -- 14. Inherited Prion Diseases / Q. Kong, W. K. Surewicz, R. B. Petersen, W. Zou, S. G. Chen, P. Gambetti, P. Parchi, S. Capellari, L. Goldfarb, P. Montagna, E. Lugaresi, P. Piccardo and B. Ghetti -- 15. Neuropathology of Prion Diseases / S. J. DeArmond, J. W. Ironside, E. Bouzamondo-Bernstein, D. Peretz and J. R. Fraser -- 16. Some Strategies and Methods for the Study of Prions / S. B. Prusiner, G. Legname, S. J. DeArmond, F. E. Cohen, J. Safar, D. Riesner and K. Kaneko -- 17. Biosafety Issues in Prion Diseases / H. Baron, J. Safar, D. Groth, S. J. DeArmond and S. B. Prusiner -- 18. Therapeutic Approaches to Prion Diseases / S. B. Prusiner, B. C. H. May and F. E. Cohen.

ISBN

0879696931 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003019306

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries