Prions and Diseases

1. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Gianluigi Zanusso, Salvatore Monaco

2. Classical and Atypical Scrapie in Sheep and Goats
Christine Fast, Martin H. Groschup

3. Chronic Wasting Disease and the Development of Research Models
Glenn Telling

4. Human Sporadic Prion Diseases
Pierluigi Gambetti, Silvio Notari

5. Environmentally Acquired Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
Paul Brown

6. Prions in the Environment
Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Jason C. Bartz, Samuel E. Saunders

7. The Spectrum of Tau Pathology in Human Prion Disease
Gabor G. Kovacs, Herbert Budka

8. Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease by Blood Transfusion
Alexander H. Peden, Mark W. Head, James W. Ironside

9. Species Barriers in Prion Disease
Suzette A. Priola

10. Transgenic Mice Modelling
Abigail B. Diack, Rona Wilson, Enrico Cancellotti, Barry Bradford, Matthew Bishop, Jean C. Manson

11. Transgenic Mouse Models in Prion Transmission Studies
Qingzhong Kong

12. Alternative Models of Prion Diseases
Pedro Fernandez-Funez, Edward Málaga-Trillo, Diego E. Rincon-Limas

13. Diagnosis of Prion Disease: Conventional Approaches
Inga Zerr, Joanna Gawinecka, Katharina Stoeck, Maren Breithaupt

14. Quaking-Induced Conversion Assays for the Detection and Diagnosis of Prion Diseases
Jason M. Wilham, Christina D. Orrù, Sarah Vascellari, Andrew G. Hughson, Byron Caughey

15. The Tyr-Tyr-Arg Prion-Specific Epitope: Update and Context
T. Dean Airey, Neil R. Cashman

16. Overview on Treatment of Prion Diseases and Decontamination of Prions
Richard Knight

17. Immunomodulation
Thomas Wisniewski, Fernando Goñi

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Human Physiology, Neurology, Protein Science, Animal Physiology, Biochemistry, general