Slow transmissible diseases of the nervous system /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942-, Hadlow, William J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Academic Press, 1979.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • vol.1. Clinical, epidemiological, genetic, and pathological aspects of the spongiform encephalopathies
  • vol.2. Pathogenesis, immunology, virology, and molecular biology of the spongiform encephalopathies
  • vol.1.
  • Origins of investigation of slow virus infections in man
  • Observations on the early history of kuru investigation
  • Kuru and clinical neurology
  • Epidemiology and ecology of kuru
  • The epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: patterns of worldwide occurence
  • Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other familial dementias: and inquiry into possible modes of transmission of virus-induced familial disease
  • The Libyan Jewish focus on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a search for the mode of natural transmission
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France
  • Early clinical features of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (subacute spongiform encephalopathy)
  • Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: neuropathological lesions and their significance
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a clinicopathologic study
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Czechoslovakia and a working concept of its surveillance
  • Electrophysiological and behavioral findings in the natural and experimental spongiform encephalopathies
  • Epidemiology of scrapie in the United States
  • Rida (scrapie) in Iceland and its epidemiology
  • An assesment of the genetics of scrapie in sheep and mice
  • Neuropathology of scrapie: the precision of the lesions and their diversity
  • Experimental transmissible mink encephalopathy: brain lesions and their sequintial development in mink
  • On the origin of transmissible mink encephalopathy
  • vol.2.
  • Natural infection of sheep with scrapie virus
  • The scrapie replication-site hypothesis and its implications for pathogenisis
  • Early events in the pathogenesis of scrapie in mice: biological and biochemical studies
  • Scrapie as a slow and latent virus
  • Biological stability of different classes of scrapie agent
  • Strain variation in the viruses of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru
  • Further observations on the neuropathology of experimental scrapie in mouse and hamster
  • Structural changes in the membrane of cells infected with scrapie and other neurotropic viruses
  • Observations onCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease propagated in small rodents
  • A transmissible variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with kuru plaques
  • Murine retrovirus motor neuron disease
  • The immunology of scrapie
  • Infection of cell cultures with scrapie agent
  • Studies of the viruses of spongiform encephalopathies in cell cultures
  • Cell-fusing activity of the subacute spongiform encephalopathy viruses: a status report
  • The virus concept and its applicability to slow transmissible agents of disease
  • Speculations on mechanisms of virus persistence
  • Biology of viroids
  • Structure and function of viroids
  • Pathogenesis and replication of plant viroids
  • The enigma of the scrapie agent: biochemical approaches and the involvement of membranes and nucleic acids
  • Inactivation of the agents of scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and kuru by radiations
  • The effect of selected detergents on scrapie infectivity
  • On the partial purification and apparent hydrophobicity of the scrapie agent
  • The use of sedimentation to equilibrium as a step in the purification of the scrapie agent
  • Hampster scrapie agent: properties, partial purification, and a DNA component
  • Biohazards and risk assesment of laboratory studies on the agents causing the spongiform encephalopathies