Prions

• Titel: Prions
• Titelzusatz: Food and Drug Safety
• Mitwirkende: Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki
• Verf.angabe: edited by Tetsuyuki Kitamoto
• Verlagsort: Tokyo
• Verlag: Springer-Verlag Tokyo
• Jahr: 2005
• Umfang: Online-Ressource (XVI, 272 p. 24 illus, digital)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: SpringerLink : Bücher
• Fussnoten: "... compiled this book mainly from papers presented at the meeting of the International symposium of prion diseases for food and drug safety, held October 31-November 2 2004 in Sendai, Japan"--p. v ; Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-4-431-29402-3
• DOI: doi:10.1007/4-431-29402-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Prionprotein
• Schlagwörter: (s)Prionkrankheit
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2004 : Sendai)
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Buchausg. u.d.T.: Prions. - Tokyo: Springer, 2005. - XV, 270 S
• RVK-Notation: YG 4505
• K10plus-PPN: 1647329582
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
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• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
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Abstract

Prion diseases recently have attracted interest not only scientifically but also socially because of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic and the outbreak of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom. In 2004, the International Symposium of Prion Diseases for Food and Drug Safety was held October 31-November 2 in Sendai, Japan, where, 20 years earlier, arguments were first heard on whether the etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy was prions or scrapie-associated fibrils. This volume is a collection of current work on prion research that was presented at the 2004 symposium. Topics included range from basic research to clinical aspects of prion diseases, making the book a valuable resource for researchers and clinicians, and encouraging further developments by the next generation of researchers.