Prion biology :a subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology

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"Prions are infectious proteins responsible for diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and "mad cow" disease. They are misfolded versions of normal proteins that replicate by converting their normal cellular counterparts into abnormal prion proteins that disrupt cell function and...

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Main Author: Prusiner, Stanley B., Ed
Other Authors: Prusiner, Stanley B.
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2017
Series:Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology.
Subjects:
Prions.
Prion diseases.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience.
MEDICAL / Neuroscience.
Table of Contents:
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  • (preliminary)
  • Preface
  • Widening Spectrum of Prion Biology and Diseases
  • Stanley B. Prusiner
  • Experimental Approaches to Neurodegeneration
  • Stanley B. Prusiner and Joel Watts
  • The HET-S/s Prion Motif in the Control of Programmed Cell Death
  • Roland Riek and Sven J. Saupe
  • The Amyloid Phenomenon and its Links with Human Disease
  • Christopher M. Dobson
  • Protein Quality Control in Health and Disease
  • Tatyana Dubnikov, Tziona Ben-Gedalya, and Ehud Cohen
  • Yeast and Fungal Prions
  • Reed B. Wickner
  • Prions, Chaperones, and Proteostasis in Yeast
  • Tatiana A. Chernova, Keith D. Wilkinson, and Yury O. Chernoff
  • The 3D Structures of Amyloids
  • Roland Riek
  • Functional Prions in the Brain
  • Joseph B. Rayman and Eric R. Kandel
  • Prion-Like Polymerization in Immunity and Inflammation
  • Xin Cai, Hui Xu, and Zhijian J. Chen
  • Cross-ss Polymerization of Low Complexity Sequence Domains
  • Masato Kato and Steven L. McKnight
  • Aggregation and Prion-Like Properties of Misfolded Tumor Suppressors: Is Cancer a Prion Disease?
  • Danielly C.F. Costa, Guilherme A.P. de Oliveira, Elio A. Cino, Iaci N. Soares, Luciana P. Rangel, and Jerson L. Silva
  • Molecular Genetics of Neurodegenerative Dementias
  • Flora I. Hinz and Daniel H. Geschwind
  • Tau PET Imaging
  • Hartmuth C. Kolb and José Ignacio Andrés
  • Potential Pathways of Abnormal Tau and a-Synuclein Dissemination in Sporadic Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases
  • Heiko Braak and Kelly Del Tredici
  • Inactivation of Prions--Deep Brain Stimulation and Synuclein Prions
  • Kurt Giles and Stanley B. Prusiner
  • Index.

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