Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become the most publicly recognizable example of a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called prions. The contributors to this volume, all internationally recognized experts in their fields, provide an introduction to prion biology, followed by reviews of the latest information on BSE, vCJD, and chronic wasting disease, an animal prion disease that has recently emerged in North America.

List of contents

Preface.- Prion Protein and the Molecular Features of TSE Agents.- Past, Present and Future of BSE in France.- Pathology and Pathogenesis of BSE and Scrapie.- Public Health and the BSE Epidemic.- Clinical Features of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.- Neuropathology and Molecular Biology of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.- The Epidemiology of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.- Chronic Wasting Disease of Cervids.- Subject Index.

Summary

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become the most publicly recognizable example of a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called prions. The contributors to this volume, all internationally recognized experts in their fields, provide an introduction to prion biology, followed by reviews of the latest information on BSE, vCJD, and chronic wasting disease, an animal prion disease that has recently emerged in North America.

Product details

• Assisted by: Davi A Harris (Editor), David A Harris (Editor), D. A. Harris (Editor), David A. Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2004
• EAN: 9783540201076
• ISBN: 978-3-540-20107-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Weight: 452 g
• Illustrations: VII, 222 p.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Protein, B, Diseases, Pathology, Neuroscience, molecular biology, Neurosciences, Neuropathology, pathogenesis, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, prions