Prion Diseases

By: Prusiner, Stanley B.

Diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru develop when PrP proteins form prions by misfolding, clumping together, and spreading from cell to cell. Over the past decade, a number of proteins have been reported to possess the characteristics of PrP prions. A growing collection of disorders has been found to be caused by prions; some of these prion diseases include such devastating illnesses as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and possibly type...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621820106
• ISBN13: 9781621820109
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 10.3"