Prion biology
Subtitle: research and advances
By: edited by Vincent Béringue, PhD
Publisher: Apple Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto; [Waretown,] New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781926895376; 9781466578166
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Prions; Prion diseases; Prions (Virologie)
Description: This book contains a selection of chapters aimed to provide a better understanding prion structure and biology. Together these chapters provide an overview of prion biology and underscore some of the challenges we face if we want to understand how this lively pathogen propagates and evolves in mammals. There is also mounting evidence that studying prion biology has a wider relevance due to similarities in the processes of protein misfolding and aggregation between prion disorders and other neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's diseases.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: 1. Prion protein's protection against pain / Vinicius M. Gadotti and Gerald W. Zamponi; title: 2. Prion protein-encoding genes Sead Chadi, Rachel Young, Sandrine Le Guillou, Gaëlle Tilly, Frédérique Bitton, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Ludivine Soubigou-Taconnat, Sandrine Balzergue, Marthe Vilotte, Coralie Peyre, Bruno Passet, Vincent Béringue, Jean-Pierre Renou, Fabienne Le Provost, Hubert Laude, and Jean-Luc Vilotte; title: 3. Protein misfolding cyclic amplification / Nuria Gonzalez-Montalban, Natallia Makarava, Valeriy G. Ostapchenko, Regina Savtchenk, Irina Alexeeva, Robert G. Rohwer, and Ilia V. Baskakov; title: 4. Amplification of the scrapie isoform of prion protein / Jae-Il Kim, Krystyna Surewicz, Pierluigi Gambetti, and Witold K. Surewicz; title: 5. The octarepeat region of the prion protein / Alice Y. Yam, Carol Man Gao, Xuemei Wang, Ping Wu, and David Peretz; title: 6. Prion protein self-peptides / Alan Rigter, Jan Priem, Drophatie Timmers-Parohi, Jan PM Langeveld, Fred G van Zijderveld, and Alex Bossers; title: 7. PrPSc spreading patterns and prion types / Wiebke M Wemheuer, Sylvie L Benestad, Arne Wrede, Wilhelm E Wemheuer, Bertram Brenig, Bjørn Bratberg, and Walter J Schulz-Schaeffer; title: 8. Experimental H-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy / Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshifumi Iwamaru, Morikazu Imamura, Kentaro Masujin, Yuichi Matsuura, Yoshihisa Shimizu, Kazuo Kasai, Shirou Mohri, Takashi Yokoyama, and Stefanie Czub; title: 9. A novel form of human disease / Ana B. Rodríguez-Martínez, Joseba M. Garrido, Juan J. Zarranz, Jose M. Arteagoitia, Marian M. de Pancorbo, Begoña Atarés, Miren J. Bilbao, Isidro Ferrer, and Ramón A. Juste; title: 10. Prions as seeds and recombinant prion proteins as substrates / Giannantonio Panza, Lars Luers, Jan Stöhr, Luitgard Nagel-Steger, Jürgen Weib, Detlev Riesner, Dieter Willbold, and Eva Birkmann; title: 11. Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis of prion-infected neuronal cells / Wibke Wagner, Paul Ajuh, Johannes Löwer, and Silja Wessler.