Overview: Authored by a team of leading researchers and clinicians.Updated knowledge and concepts on pathogenic prion proteins and prion diseases.Present state-of the art findings and hypotheses beyond prions a.Volume II features a variety of animal and human prion diseases, including the newly-identified atypical forms of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie in animals, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy in humans, prions in the environment, Tau pathology in human prion disease, transmission of the disease by blood transfusion, mammalian and non-mammalian models, conventional
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