Prions And Diseases: Volume 2, Animals, Humans And The Environment

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.

• • Author: Wen-Quan Zou, Pierluigi Gambetti
• • Publisher: Springer
• • Publication Date: Dec 13, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 308 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1489993975
• • ISBN-13: 9781489993977