Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies:: Scrapie, Bse and Related Human Disorders

by Michael Potter, Max D. Cooper, V. Nussenzweig, et al.

Book Overview

In spite of a long history of intense investigation, the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are a poorly understood grouping of neurodegenerative diseases. This family of diseases includes kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Gerstmann-Str ussler syndrome in humans and scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad-cow disease") and related syndromes in ruminants and rodents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642765424
• ISBN13: 9783642765421
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"