This book details the latest research on prion diseases and presents developing therapies. It includes contributions from Nobel Laureates Eric Kandel and Stanley Prusiner.

With contributions from nobel laureats Eric Kandel and Stanley Prusiner

Latest research on prion diseases

Presents developing therapies

Klappentext

With contributions from nobel laureats Eric Kandel and Stanley Prusiner Latest research on prion diseases Presents developing therapies

Zusammenfassung

With contributions from nobel laureats Eric Kandel and Stanley Prusiner

Latest research on prion diseases

Presents developing therapies

Inhalt

Preface.- Widening Spectrum of Prions Causing Neurodegenerative Diseases (Stanley B. Prusiner).- b-Amyloid Fibril Structures, In Vitro and In Vivo (Robert Tycko).- Structure-Activity Relationship of Amyloids (Jason Greenwald and Roland Riek).- Seeding and Cross-seeding in Amyloid Diseases (Per Westermark and Gunilla T. Westermark).- The Prion-like Aspect of Alzheimer Pathology ( Sarah K. Fritschi, Bahareh Eftekharzadeh, Giusi Manfredi, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Götz Heilbronner, Amudha Nagarathinam, Franziska Langer, Yvonne S. Eisele, Lary Walker, Mathias Jucker).- Amyloid- Transmissibility ( Duran-Aniotz C, Morales R, Moreno-Gonzalez I, Soto C).- Prion-like Properties of Assembled Tau Protein ( Florence Clavaguera, Markus Tolnay, and Michel Goedert).- Accumulating Evidence Suggests that Parkinson´s Disease is a Prion-like Disorder. - Nolwen L. Rey, Elodie Angot, Christopher Dunning, Jennifer A. Steiner, Patrik Brundin).- Propagation and Replication of Misfolded SOD1: Implications for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( Anne Bertolotti).- Development of Drugs that Target Proteopathic Seeds Will Require Measurement of Drug Mechanism in Human Brain ( Peter T. Lansbury).- The Role of Functional Prions in the Persistence of Memory Storage (Eric R. Kandel, Irina Derkatch, Elias Pavlopoulos).- Subject Index.