Advancing Prion Science: Guidance for the National Prion Research Program - Couverture souple

Institute Of Medicine; Medical Follow-up Agency; Committee On Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment Of Relevant Science

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ISBN 10 : 0309090601 ISBN 13 : 9780309090605

Editeur : National Academies Press, 2004

Synopsis

In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and investment to the Department of Defense's National Prion Research Program (NPRP). Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called prion diseases, are invariably fatal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. To develop antemortem diagnostics or therapies for TSEs, the committee concludes that NPRP should invest in basic research specifically to elucidate the structural features of prions, the molecular mechanisms of prion replication, the mechanisms of TSE pathogenesis, and the physiological function of prions' normal cellular isoform. Advancing Prion Science provides the first comprehensive reference on present knowledge about all aspects of TSEs--from basic science to the U.S. research infrastructure, from diagnostics to surveillance, and from prevention to treatment.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rick Erdtmann and Laura B. Sivitz, Editors, Committee on Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: National Academies Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0309090601
• ISBN 13: 9780309090605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Sivitz Laura B., Erdtmann Rick
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