| Description |
xi, 159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: evidence for autoimmunity triggered by microbial infection / Alan Ebringer and Taha Rashid -- Psychiatric features of sporadic and new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / Alain Dervaux and Hubert Lainé -- Familial CJD: what triggers the disease onset? / Ariela Gigi and Reuven Babai -- Modelling the growth of prion protein aggregates in the brain in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / Richard A. Armstrong -- Neuronal cyclooxygenase-2, MCL-1, BCL-Xs, BAX, caspase-6 and -8 accumulation in brains of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: friend or foe? / Martin H. Deininger and Richard Meyermann -- Coexistence of Alzheimer's disease with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / Osamu Yokota and Kuniaki Tsuchiya -- Modelling the growth of prion aggregates in the brain in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / Richard A. Armstrong -- vCJD and the unbounded legacy of BSE / Eric P.M. Grist |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Brain -- Infections.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome.
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| Author |
Stonebrook, Michael J. (Michael Jason), 1963-
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| LC no. |
2006021422 |
| ISBN |
1600213456 (cased) |
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9781600213458 (cased) |
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