The Enigma of Slow Viruses Facts and Artefacts /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Liberski, Pawel P. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edición:1st ed. 1993.
Colección:Archives of Virology. Supplementa, 6
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9270-2
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies from the perspective of a neuroscientist
  • 2. The molecular biology of the slow viruses
  • 2.1. The search for the virus-specific nucleic acid
  • 2.2. The prion protein
  • 2.3. The structure of the gene encoding PrP 33-35 (Prn-p) in different species
  • 2.4. The models of slow viruses
  • 3. The pathogenesis of slow virus infection
  • 3.1. The general sequence of the pathogenetic events
  • 3.2. The role of the spleen
  • 3.3. The role of the spleen in neuroinvasion
  • 3.4. The role of viremia
  • 3.5. The role of macrophages in scrapie infection
  • 3.6. The neural spread of infectivity from the spleen to the central nervous system
  • 3.7. The neural spread of infectivity within the central nervous system
  • 3.8. Biochemistry and histochemistry of slow virus infections
  • 4. Neuropathology of slow virus diseases Ill
  • 4.1. Natural scrapie
  • 4.2. Kuru
  • 4.3. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  • 4.4. Elements of neuropathology of slow virus disorders
  • 5. Final conclusions
  • Addendum
  • References.