Prions : the new biology of proteins /
Soto, Claudio,Dr.
Boca Raton, Fla. ; London : CRC/Taylor & Francis,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Human and animal diseases: clinical symptoms, epidemiology, and neuropathology -- The infectious agent and the prion hypothesis -- The prion protein: structure, conversion, and mechanism of propagation -- Cell biology, genetic and putative function of the normal prion protein -- Prion strains, species barriers, and multiple conformations of the prion protein -- From the mouth to the brain -- Neurodegeneration in prion diseases -- The diagnosis problem and current tests -- Therapeutic approaches -- Cyclic amplification of prion protein misfolding: rationale, applications, and perspectives -- Other diseases of protein misfolding -- Prions: a common phenomenon in biology?
Prions.
Prion diseases.
Proteins.