Prion Diseases Diagnosis and Pathogenesis /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Groschup, Martin H. (Editor ), Kretzschmar, Hans. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edición:1st ed. 2000.
Colección:Archives of Virology. Supplementa, 16
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6308-5
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pathogenesis of Prion Diseases
  • Prions: from neurografts to neuroinvasion
  • Follicular dendritic cells in scrapie pathogenesis
  • Cellular and sub-cellular localisation of PrP in the lymphoreticular system of mice and sheep
  • Pharmacological manipulation of early PrPres accumulation in the spleen of scrapie-infected mice
  • Pathogenesis of natural scrapie in sheep
  • Animal Models for Priorn Diseases
  • Detection of cattle-derived BSE prions using transgenic mice overexpressing bovine PrPC
  • Analyzing the influence of PrP primary structure on prion pathogenesis in transgenic mice
  • A single amino acid alteration in murine PrP dramatically alters TSE incubation time
  • A transgenic model of a familial prion disease
  • Transgenic models of prion disease
  • Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Prion Diseases
  • Surveillance of BSE
  • Histopathology and immunohistochemistry of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)
  • Pathology of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Clinical and differential diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Putting prions into focus: application of single molecule detection to the diagnosis of prion diseases
  • Detection of PrPSc in subclinical BSE with the paraffin-embedded tissue (PET) blot
  • Sheep and goats: natural and experimental TSEs and factors influencing incidence of disease
  • Application of Prionics Western blotting procedure to screen for BSE in cattle regularly slaughtered at Swiss abattoirs
  • Specific determination of the proteinase K-resistant form of the prion protein using two-site immunometric assays. Application to the post-mortem diagnosis of BSE
  • Characterization of the Infectious Agent
  • PrPSc typing by N-terminal sequencing and mass spectrometry
  • Characterization of BSE and scrapie strains/isolates
  • Quantitative traits of prion strains are enciphered in the conformation of the prion protein
  • Structure and Function of PrP
  • Function of PrPc as a copper-binding protein at the synapse
  • The prion protein globular domain and disease-related mutants studied by molecular dynamics simulations
  • Neurotoxicity but not infectivity of prion proteins can be induced reversibly in vitro
  • PrP Conversion
  • Inhibition of formation of protease-resistant prion protein by Trypan Blue, Sirius Red and other Congo Red analogs
  • The use of monoclonal antibody epitopes for tagging PrP in conversion experiments
  • Listed in Current Contents.