Search Results - "prion"

Advancing prion science guidance for the national prion research program /

Table of Contents: “…Executive summary -- Prion diseases: an overview -- Diagnostics for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Testing blood for evidence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the United States -- Assessment of strategies to prevent and treat transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Infrastructure for research on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Risks of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies to the U.S. military.…”
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Advancing prion science guidance for the National Prion Research Program, interim report /

Subjects: “…Prion diseases Research United States.…”
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How the cows turned mad by Schwartz, Maxime, 1940-

Subjects: “…Prion diseases History.…”
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How the cows turned mad unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / by Schwartz, Maxime, 1940-

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Food safety contaminants and toxins /

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Clinical neuropathology text and color atlas / by Haberland, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Basics of neuropathology -- Cerebral hypoxia -- Cerebrovascular diseases -- Neurodegenerative diseases -- Infectious diseases -- Prion diseases -- Demyelinating diseases -- Hereditary neurometabolic diseases -- Acquired neurometabolic diseases -- Tumors of the central nervous system -- Traumatic injuries of the central nervous system -- Congenital malformations of the central nervous system -- Fetal and perinatal cerebral pathology.…”
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The Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases by Rifkind, David

Table of Contents: “…Serotherapy -- Antimicrobial defenses -- MHC restriction -- Prontosil and the sulfonamides -- Penicillin -- Streptomycin -- Chemotherapeutic agents -- Tuberculosis -- Typhus -- Syphilis therapy -- Tobacco mosaic virus -- Yellow fever -- Poliomyelitis virus -- Hepatitis B virus -- Bacteriophage -- Bacteriophage lysogeny -- Rous sarcoma virus -- Polyoma virus -- Reverse transcriptase -- Viral oncogenes -- Kuru -- Prions -- Malaria -- Cancer parasite -- DDT.…”
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Metal-based neurodegeneration : from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies / by Crichton, Robert R.

Table of Contents: “…Brain function, physiology, and the blood-brain barrier -- Role of metal ions in brain function, metal transport, storage, and homeostasis -- Immune system and neuroinflammation -- Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases -- Aging and mild cognitive impairment, MCI -- Parkinson's disease -- Alzheimer's disease -- Huntington's disease and polyglutamine expansion neurodegenerative diseases -- Friedreich's ataxia and diseases associated with expansion of non-coding triplets -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob and other prion diseases -- Amyotropic lateral sclerosis -- Alcoholic brain damage -- Other neurological diseases -- Therapeutic strategies to combat the onset and progression of neurological diseases.…”
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The differential diagnosis of chorea /

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The behavioral neurology of dementia

Table of Contents: “….] -- CADASIL : a genetic model of arteriolar degeneration, white matter injury, and dementia in later life / Stephen Salloway ... [et al.] -- Prion disorders and other rapidly progressive dementias / Michael D. …”
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Merritt's neurology.

Table of Contents: “…Signs and symptoms in neurologic diagnosis: approach to the patient -- Delirium and confusion -- Memory loss, behavioral changes and dementia -- Aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia -- Syncope, seizures and their mimics -- Coma -- Headache -- Diagnosis of pain and paresthesias -- Dizziness, vertigo, and hearing loss -- Impaired vision -- Involuntary movements -- Syndromes caused by weak muscles -- Gait disorders -- CT and MRI -- Electroencephalography and evoked potentials -- Electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and and magnetic stimulation -- Autonomic testing -- Neurovascular imaging -- Endovascular neuroradiology -- Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid examination -- Muscle and nerve biopsy -- Neuropsychological evaluation -- DNA diagnosis -- Bacterial infections -- Focal infections -- Viral infections and postviral syndromes -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- Fungal infections -- Neurosarcoidosis -- Neurosyphilis -- Leptospirosis -- Lyme disease -- Parasitic infections -- Bacterial toxins -- Prion diseases -- Whipple disease -- Pathogenesis, classification, and epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease -- Examination of the patient with cerebrovascular disease -- Transient ischemic attack -- Cerebral infarction -- Intracerebral hemorrhage -- Genetics of stroke -- Other cerebrovascular syndromes -- Differential diagnosis of stroke -- Stroke in children -- Treatment and prevention of stroke -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis -- Vascular disease of the spinal cord -- Vasculitis -- Susac syndrome -- Vascular tumors and malformations -- Hydrocephalus -- Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) -- Brain edema and disorders of intracranial pressure -- Superficial siderosis and intracerebral hypotension -- Hyperosmolar syndromes -- General considerations -- Tumors of the skull and cranial nerves -- Tumors of the meninges -- Gliomas -- Lymphomas -- Pineal region tumors -- Tumors of the pituitary gland -- Congenital and childhood tumors -- Metastatic tumors -- Spinal tumors -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Complications of cancer chemotherapy --…”
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