Prion Diseases

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Baker, Harry F. (Editor), Ridley, Rosalind M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 1996.
Edition:1st ed. 1996.
Series:Methods in Molecular Medicine, 3
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1385/0896033422
Table of Contents:
  • The Paradox of Prion Disease
  • Human Spongiform Encephalopathy
  • Neuropathological Diagnosis of Human Prion Disease
  • Neuropathological Diagnosis of Human Prion Disease
  • The Diagnosis of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Scrapie by the Detection of Fibrils and the Abnormal Protein lsoform
  • Exposure to, and Inactivation of, the Unconventional Agents that Cause Transmissible Degenerative Encephalopathies
  • Surveillance of Prion Diseases in Humans
  • Environmental Causes of Human Spongiform Encephalopathy
  • Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
  • Handling the BSE Epidemic in Great Britain
  • Special Problems of Genetic Counseling in Adult-Onset Diseases
  • Genotyping and Susceptibility of Sheep to Scrapie
  • Strain Typing Studies of Scrapie and BSE
  • PrP-Deficient Mice in the Study of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
  • Transgenic Approaches to Prion "Species-Barrier" Effects
  • Methods for Studying Prion Protein Amyloid
  • Methods for Studying Prion Protein (PrP) Metabolism and the Formation of Protease-Resistant PrP in Cell Culture and Cell-Free Systems
  • Immunohistochemistry of Resinated Tissues for Light and Electron Microscopy.