9780309090605: Advancing Prion Science: Guidance for the National Prion Research Program
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ISBN 10: 0309090601 ISBN 13: 9780309090605
Publisher: National Academies Press, 2004

Synopsis

In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicinea (TM)s Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and investment to the Department of Defensea (TM)s National Prion Research Program (NPRP). Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called prion diseases, are invariably fatal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. To develop antemortem diagnostics or therapies for TSEs, the committee concludes that NPRP should invest in basic research specifically to elucidate the structural features of prions, the molecular mechanisms of prion replication, the mechanisms of TSE pathogenesis, and the physiological function of prionsa (TM) normal cellular isoform. Advancing Prion Science provides the first comprehensive reference on present knowledge about all aspects of TSEsa "from basic science to the U.S. research infrastructure, from diagnostics to surveillance, and from prevention to treatment.

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About the Author

Rick Erdtmann and Laura B. Sivitz, Editors, Committee on Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science

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Publisher
National Academies Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0309090601
ISBN 13 
9780309090605
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
Editor
Sivitz Laura B., Erdtmann Rick