Advancing Prion Science: Guidance for the National Prion Research Program (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309090605)

In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and investment to the Department of Defense'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 prions' normal cellular isoform. Advancing Prion Science provides the first comprehensive reference on present knowledge about all aspects of TSEs--from basic science to the U.S. research infrastructure, from diagnostics to surveillance, and from prevention to treatment.

Author: Institute of Medicine,Medical Follow-Up Agency,Committee on Transmissible Spongiform En
ISBN-10: 0309090601
ISBN-13: 9780309090605
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2004
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.68d