Prions And Diseases Volume 2 Animals Humans And The Environment 1st Edition Gianluigi Zanusso Md by Gianluigi Zanusso M.d., Ph.d., Salvatore Monaco M.d. (auth.), Wen-quan Zou, Pierluigi Gambetti (eds.) 9781461453376, 9781461453383, 1461453372, 1461453380 instant download after payment.

Volume II features a variety of animal and human prion diseases, including the newly-identified atypical forms of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie in animals, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy in humans, prions in the environment, Tau pathology in human prion disease, transmission of the disease by blood transfusion, mammalian and non-mammalian models, conventional and advanced diagnoses, prion-specific antibodies, as well as decontamination of prions and development of therapeutics of prion diseases, such as the application of immunomodulation. This volume provides up-to-date knowledge about the etiology, pathogenesis, classification, histopathological, and clinical aspects of the highly publicized animal and human prion diseases.