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| View Larger Image | Prions: The New Biology of Proteins | Hardcoverby Claudio Soto (Author)
| List Price: | $154.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | CRC | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 184 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 20, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 1,559,596st |
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| Prions and Mad Cow Disease
by Brian K. Nunnally (Editor), Ira S. Krull (Editor)
Recommends possible strategies to prevent bovine spongiform encephalopathy from spreading. Considers cyclic amplification of scrapie prion protein and its implications for diagnosis, as well as the sensitive detection of prion proteins by immunoassay. Discusses prion detection techniques and their application to ensure the safety of biological products.
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| Gene Biotechnology, Second Edition
by William Wu (Author), Michael J. Welsh (Author), Peter B. Kaufman (Author), Helen H. Zhang (Author)
Many scientists find themselves working in the laboratory without sufficient background in current biotechnology methods. Others want to keep up with the revolution in biotechnology and the flood of new methodologies. This book provides a solution for both: a multidisciplinary approach to the methods essential to biotechnical development. Covering state-of-the-art technologies and a broad range of practical applications, the Second Edition of Gene Biotechnology presents information that...
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| Statistical Aspects of BSE and vCJD: Models for Epidemics (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
by C A Donnelly (Author), N M Ferguson (Author)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease," first diagnosed in late 1986, is transmitted through feed, indirect horizontal transmission, apparently maternally and possibly horizontally, through cattle-to-cattle contact or a contaminated environment. With no ante-mortem test yet developed, the only information available about BSE is from case surveillance and a limited number of experiments. Only through careful and rigorous modeling and analysis can reliable estimates of past...
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
The current interest in prion diseases has been fueled by the panic that originated from the appearance of a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the evidence linking it to human exposure to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent. Peer-reviewed to assure accuracy, this book describes the science, concepts, hypothesis, and mechanisms of prion disease transmission. It covers human and animal prion diseases, their incidence, prevalence, origin, and clinical and neuropathologic characteristics. The author provides scientific facts and a clear explanation of the relevance and implications of the findings for science in general. |
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Prion Biology and Diseases, Second Edition (Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Series)
by Stanley B. Prusiner (Author), Stanley B. Prusiner (Editor)
A new edition of the most authoritative book in its field, first published in 1999 and edited by the Nobel Prize–winning founder of the field. This edition is expanded and completely updated, and includes chapters on therapeutics, and diagnostic methods and approaches.
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| The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
by Philip Yam (Author)
In 1996, British doctors were horrified to discover that mad cow disease (BSE), an affliction that had been plaguing British cattle for ten years, had jumped the species barrier and was appearing in humans as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Not unlike the mad cows, victims of vCJD suffer from a degenerative neurological disease that peppers the brain with microscopic holes, causing dementia, loss of motor control, and certain death. What alarms researchers and public health officials...
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| How the Cows Turned Mad: Unlocking the Mysteries of Mad Cow Disease
by Maxime Schwartz (Author), Edward Schneider (Translator)
Fear of mad cow disease, a lethal illness transmitted from infected beef to humans, has spread from Europe to the United States and around the world. Originally published to much acclaim in France, this scientific thriller, available in English for the first time and updated with a new chapter on developments in 2001, tells of the hunt for the cause of an enigmatic class of fatal brain infections, of which mad cow disease is the latest incarnation. In gripping, nontechnical prose, Maxime...
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