1st Edition
Light And Electron Microscopic Neuropathology of Slow Virus Disorders
By P. P. Liberski
Copyright 1992
444 Pages
by
CRC Press
444 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Light and Electron Microscopic Neuropathology of Slow Virus Disorders provides extensive coverage of the neurobiology and neuropathology of slow, unconventional virus disorders also known as prion diseases. The book features an outstanding group of contributers, including Nobel Laureate Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek and his co-workers. Studies range from the classical to the modern and are based on... Read more
1. Transmissible Amyloidosis of the Brain 2. Pathogenesis of Unconventional Slow Virus Infections 3. The Molecular Biology of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy - Infectious Cerebral - Amyloidosis 4. Models of Slow Viruses 5. An Overview of Neuropathology of the Slow Unconventional Virus Infections 6. Natural Scrapie 7. The Spongiform Vacuole-The Hallmark of Slow Virus Diseases 8. Putative Morphogenesis of Vacuoles from "Abnormal Configuration of Plasma Membranes" 9. Astrocytic Changes 10. Immunohistochemistry of Astrocytic Reaction 11. Microglia in Scrapie 12. Neuroaxonal Dystrophy in Unconventional Slow Virus Disease 13. The Amyloid Plaque 14. Neuronal Degeneration in Unconventional Slow Virus Disorders 15. Tubulovesicular Structures 16. Scrapie-Associated Fibrils.
Biography
P. P. Liberski
