Prion diseases : diagnosis and pathogenesis /

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Imprint:Wien ; New York : Springer, c2000.
Description:ix, 290 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5893616
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Other authors / contributors:Groschup, M. H. (Martin H.)
Kretzschmar, H. A. (Hans A.)
ISBN:321183530X (hc)
3211835296 (sc)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Prions: from neurografts to neuroinvasion / M. Glatzel, M. A. Klein and S. Brandner / [et al.]
  • Follicular dendritic cells in scrapie pathogenesis / K. L. Brown, K. Stewart and D. Ritchie / [et al.]
  • Cellular and sub-cellular localisation of PrP in the lymphoreticular system of mice and sheep / M. Jeffrey, G. McGovern and S. Martin / [et al.]
  • Pharmacological manipulation of early PrP[superscript res] accumulation in the spleen of scrapie-infected mice / V. Beringue, F. Lamoury and K. T. Adjou / [et al.]
  • Pathogenesis of natural scrapie in sheep / L. J. M. van Keulen, B. E. C. Schreuder and M. E. W. Vromans / [et al.]
  • Detection of cattle-derived BSE prions using transgenic mice overexpressing bovine PrP[superscript C] / A. Buschmann, E. Pfaff and K. Reifenberg / [et al.]
  • Analyzing the influence of PrP primary structure on prion pathogenesis in transgenic mice / S. Campbell, U. Dennchy and G. Telling
  • A single amino acid alteration in murine PrP dramatically alters TSE incubation time / J. C. Manson, R. Barron and E. Jamieson / [et al.]
  • A transgenic model of a familial prion disease / D. A. Harris, R. Chiesa and B. Drisaldi / [et al.]
  • Transgenic models of prion disease / M. R. Scott, S. Supattapone and H.-O. B. Nguyen / [et al.]
  • Surveillance of BSE / D. Heim and J. W. Wilesmith
  • Histopathology and immunohistochemistry of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) / H. Budka
  • Pathology of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / J. W. Ironside
  • Clinical and differential diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / S. Poser, I. Zerr and A. Schroeter / [et al.]
  • Putting prions into focus: application of single molecule detection to the diagnosis of prion diseases / A. Giese, J. Bieschke and M. Eigen / [et al.]
  • Detection of PrP[superscript Sc] in subclinical BSE with the paraffin-embedded tissue (PET) blot / W. J. Schulz-Schaeffer, R. Fatzer and M. Vandevelde / [et al.]
  • Sheep and goats: Natural and experimental TSEs and factors influencing incidence of disease / N. Hunter, W. Goldmann and E. Marshall / [et al.]
  • Application of Prionics Western blotting procedure to screen for BSE in cattle regularly slaughtered at Swiss abattoirs / B. Oesch, M. Doherr and D. Heim / [et al.]
  • 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 / J. Grassi, C. Creminon and Y. Frobert / [et al.]
  • PrP[superscript Sc] typing by N-terminal sequencing and mass spectrometry / S. G. Chen, W. Zou and P. Parchi / [et al.]
  • Characterization of BSE and scrapie strains/isolates / M. H. Groschup, T. Kuczius and F. Junghans / [et al.]
  • Quantitative traits of prion strains are enciphered in the conformation of the prion protein / J. Safar, F. E. Cohen and S. B. Prusiner
  • Function of PrP[superscript C] as a copper-binding protein at the synapse / H. A. Kretzschmar, T. Tings and A. Madlung / [et al.]
  • The prion protein globular domain and disease-related mutants studied by molecular dynamics simulations / M. Billeter and K. Wuthrich
  • Neurotoxicity but not infectivity of prion proteins can be induced reversibly in vitro / K. Post, D. R. Brown and M. H. Groschup / [et al.]
  • Inhibition of formation of protease-resistant prion protein by Trypan Blue, Sirius Red and other Congo Red analogs / R. Demaimay, B. Chesebro and B. Caughey
  • The use of monoclonal antibody epitopes for tagging PrP in conversion experiments / I. Vorberg, E. Pfaff and M. H. Groschup.