Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies:: Scrapie, Bse and Related Human Disorders

by Michael Potter, Max D. Cooper, V. Nussenzweig, et al.

Book Overview

In spite of a long history of intense investigation the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies remain a poorly understood family of neurodegenerative diseases. This group of diseases has been described in a wide variety of animal species and includes kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome in humans, and scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and related syndromes in ruminants and rodents. In all cases spongiform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642765424
• ISBN13: 9783642765421
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"