Prions and Diseases: Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment

By Wen-Quan Zou

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489993975
• ISBN13: 9781489993977
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"