Prions : the new biology of proteins /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Soto, Claudia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Subjects:	Prions. Prion diseases. Proteins. Prion Diseases. Prion Diseases > veterinary.

Table of Contents:

Human and animal diseases : clinical symptoms, epidemiology and neuropathology
The infectious agent and the prion hypothesis
The prion protein : structure, conversion and mechanism of propagation
Cell biology, genetic and putative function of the normal prion protein
Prion strains, species barriers and multiple conformations of the prion protein
From the mouth to the brain
Neurodegeneration in prion diseases
The diagnosis problem and current tests
Therapeutic approaches
Cyclic amplification of prion protein misfolding : rationale, applications and perspectives
Other diseases of protein misfolding
Prions : a common phenomenon in biology