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Table of contents (61 papers)
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Front Matter
About this book
Prion diseases recently have attracted interest not only scientifically but also socially because of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic and the outbreak of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom. In 2004, the International Symposium of Prion Diseases for Food and Drug Safety was held October 31–November 2 in Sendai, Japan, where, 20 years earlier, arguments were first heard on whether the etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy was prions or scrapie-associated fibrils. This volume is a collection of current work on prion research that was presented at the 2004 symposium. Topics included range from basic research to clinical aspects of prion diseases, making the book a valuable resource for researchers and clinicians, and encouraging further developments by the next generation of researchers.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Prion Research, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Tetsuyuki Kitamoto
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prions
Book Subtitle: Food and Drug Safety
Editors: Tetsuyuki Kitamoto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-29402-3
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-25539-0Published: 03 August 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-29402-3Published: 09 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 272
Topics: Neurology, Neuroradiology, Infectious Diseases