PrPSc Prions: State of the Art

• Päätekijä: Jesús R. Requena (Ed.) (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Joaquín Castilla (Ed.) (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Aiheet: 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
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...