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| Title: | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
: New Research |
| Author: | Michael J Stones (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600213456 : 9781600213458 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 158 |
| Weight: | .588 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - August 2006 |
| List Price: | 107.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Neurology & clinical neurophysiology |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder that is ultimately fatal. It is the most common of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases (also known as prion diseases) are caused by a unique type of infectious agent called prions, an abnormally structured form of a protein found in the brain. Other prion diseases include Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru in humans, as well as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie in animals. This book presents the latest research in this field.
Preface; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Evidence for Autoimmunity Triggered by Microbial Infection; Psychiatric Features of Sporadic and new Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Familial CJD -- What Triggers the Disease Onset?; Pathological Changes in the Primary Visual Cortex (Area V1) in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome; Neuronal Cyclooxygenase-2, MCL-1, BCL-Xs, BAX, caspase-6 and -8 Accumulation in Brains of Patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Friend or Foe?; Coexistence of Alzheimer's Disease with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Modelling the Growth of Prion Aggregates in the Brain in Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; vCJD and the Unbounded Legacy of BSE; Index.
