PrPSc Prions: State of the Art

• Hoofdauteur: Jesús R. Requena (Ed.) (auth)
• Andere auteurs: Joaquín Castilla (Ed.) (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Onderwerpen: Medicine; Prion propagation; Therapy; Scrapie; Chronic wasting disease; Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease; GSS; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Prion structure; CWD; BSE; Prions; Therapeutics; Prion diseases; VPSPr; Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy
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Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are a group of fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative disorders characterized by long incubation periods, misfolded prion protein (PrP) deposition, and usually spongiform vacuolation. These devastating diseases affect many mamma...