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ADVANCING PRION SCIENCE
GUIDANCE FOR THE NATIONAL PRION RESEARCH PROGRAM |
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Committee on Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of , Medical Follow-Up Agency, Institute of Medicine |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309090601 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309090605 |
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| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 November, 2003 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Presents the priorities recommended by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science for research and investment. This book also provides reference on Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, also called prion diseases, which are fatal neurodegenerative infectious diseases. |
| Synopsis: |
In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicinea (TM)s Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and investment to the Department of Defensea (TM)s National Prion Research Program (NPRP). Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called prion diseases, are invariably fatal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. To develop antemortem diagnostics or therapies for TSEs, the committee concludes that NPRP should invest in basic research specifically to elucidate the structural features of prions, the molecular mechanisms of prion replication, the mechanisms of TSE pathogenesis, and the physiological function of prionsa (TM) normal cellular isoform. Advancing Prion Science provides the first comprehensive reference on present knowledge about all aspects of TSEsa "from basic science to the U.S. research infrastructure, from diagnostics to surveillance, and from prevention to treatment. |
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US |
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National Academies Press |
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