xiii, 311 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents
Tumor resistance to cell death and its relationship with protein prion / Maryam Mehrpour et al. -- Roles of prion protein and prion protein-like protein in neurodegeneration: implication in the pathogenesis of prion diseases / Suehiro Sakaguchi -- Does misfolded prion protein induce genetic dysregulation? A hypothesis / Lawrence M. Agius -- The Doppel protein or how sex perturbs the brain / K. Peoc'h and J.L. Laplanche -- Modelling the growth of prion aggregates in the brain in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / Richard A. Armstrong -- An historical view of the prion concept in biology / Sergio Comincini -- Autophagy in prion diseases / Beata Sikorska and Pawel P. Liberski -- Dermatologic implications on prion infections / Omar Lupi -- TSE and diabetes mellitus: two grins of the same evil? / Sergey V. Verevka