Prions: The New Biology of Proteins.(Book review)

Emerging Infectious Diseases | June 1, 2007| | Copyright

Prions: The New Biology of Proteins Claudio Soto CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 2005 ISBN: 9780849314421 Pages: 184; Price: US $139.95

Prions are believed to be the causative agents of a group of rapidly progressive neurodegenerative diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases. They are infectious isoforms of a host-encoded cellular protein known as the prion protein. Prion diseases affect humans and animals and are uniformly fatal. The most common prion disease in humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...

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