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.
- | Author: Wen-Quan Zou
- | Publisher: Springer
- | Publication Date: Nov 08, 2012
- | Number of Pages: 298 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1461453372
- | ISBN-13: 9781461453376
