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The Clinical Companion includes the practical and clinical information culled from the Second Edition of The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease that is most useful for practicing neurologists. ... Read more

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A new edition of the most authoritative book in its field, first published in 1999 and edited by the Nobel Prize winning founder of the field. This edition is expanded and completely updated, and includes chapters on therapeutics, and diagnostic methods and approaches. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stanley Ben Prusiner (born May 28, 1942) is an American neurologist and biochemist. Currently the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his prion research.Prusiner was born in Des Moines, Iowa and spent his childhood in Des Moines and Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended Walnut Hills High School. Prusiner received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and later received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. ... Read more

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University of California, San Francisco. Research on the protein-based infectious agents called prions, for investigators. 18 contributors, 16 U.S. ... Read more

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Chapters: Prion, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Stanley B. Prusiner, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Chronic Wasting Disease, Fungal Prions, Kuru, Scrapie, Sup35p, Gerstmann-sträussler-scheinker Syndrome, Laura Manuelidis, Specified Risk Material, Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy, Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy, Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy, Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification, Ure2p. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A prion (pronounced ( listen)) is an infectious agent that is composed primarily of protein. To date, all such agents have been discovered to propagate by transmitting a mis-folded protein state; as with viruses the protein itself does not self-replicate, rather it induces existing polypeptides in the host organism to take on the rogue form. The misfolded form of the prion protein has been implicated in a number of diseases in a variety of mammals, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease") in cattle and CreutzfeldtJakob disease (CJD) in humans. All known prion diseases affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue and all are currently untreatable and universally fatal. In general usage, prion refers to the theoretical unit of infection. In scientific notation, PrP refers to the endogenous form of prion protein (PrP), which is found in a multitude of tissues, while PrP refers to the misfolded form of PrP, that is responsible for the formation of amyloid plaques and neurodegeneration. The precise composition of the prion is not known, though they can be formed by combining PrP, polyadenylic acid, and lipids. Prions are hypothesized to infect and propagate by refolding abnormally into a structure which is able to convert normal molecules of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23048 ... Read more

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Chapters: Barbara Mcclintock, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Stanley B. Prusiner, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Roger Y. Tsien, Eric Kandel, Jean Dausset, Maclyn Mccarty, Oliver Smithies, Mario Capecchi, Meir Wilchek, Judah Folkman, César Milstein, Seymour Benzer, Edward B. Lewis, Michael Berridge, James W. Black, Anthony Pawson, Avram Hershko, Arvid Carlsson, George Davis Snell, Robert Weinberg, John Gurdon, Anthony R. Hunter, Solomon H. Snyder, Alexander Levitzki, Stanley Norman Cohen, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Michael Sela, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Leo Sachs, Pedro Cuatrecasas, Mary F. Lyon, Donald F. Steiner, Osamu Hayaishi, Ruth Arnon, Alexander Varshavsky, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Aharon Razin, Henri G. Hers, Jon J. Van Rood, Howard Cedar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 192. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 September 2, 1992), the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. Her work was groundbreaking: she developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas, including genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosisa mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome with physical traits, and demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of gen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=55188 ... Read more

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Chapters: Isaac Asimov, Linus Pauling, Kary Mullis, Konrad Emil Bloch, Walter Gilbert, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Stanley B. Prusiner, Martin Kamen, Gerty Cori, Michael Behe, Roger Y. Tsien, Joseph L. Goldstein, Mila Rechcigl, Robert K. Crane, Martin Rodbell, Miguel Ondetti, James B. Aguayo-Martel, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Selman Waksman, Joseph S. Fruton, Joseph Schlessinger, Philip Handler, Arthur Kornberg, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Rashad Khalifa, Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Roy Mackal, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Kenneth Breslauer, Jane S. Richardson, Orange Judd, Merrill Garnett, Conrad Elvehjem, Ralph F. Hirschmann, Edwin G. Krebs, Paul D. Boyer, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Robert F. Furchgott, Edward D. Goldberg, Bruce Alberts, Gideon Dreyfuss, Irwin Gunsalus, Mahlon Hoagland, Arieh Warshel, Lawrence Joseph Henderson, Paul Berg, Efraim Racker, David Sanders, Marvin Makinen, Edmond H. Fischer, Sam Ruben, Arthur Pardee, Sheldon Segal, John Jacob Abel, George Church, Rollin Hotchkiss, Marie Maynard Daly, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Ida Pauline Rolf, Elmer L. Gaden, Harvey Itano, David S. Mckay, John C. Sanford, Lewis Joel Greene, Myron L. Bender, Charles Glen King, Nancy Andrews, Lorene Rogers, William Jencks, Gertrude B. Elion, Severo Ochoa, J. Edwin Seegmiller, Bernard Brodie, Robert W. Holley, Joseph Samachson, Annette Salmeen, Vincent Du Vigneaud, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Horace Barker, Karl Paul Link, Carl Niemann, Thomas A. Steitz, Edwin B. Hart, Angela Belcher, Otto Folin, Bruce Ames, Lubert Stryer, Laura Manuelidis, William D. Mcelroy, Albert L. Lehninger, Jonathan Dordick, Helmut Beinert, Donald Voet, Elvin A. Kabat, Michael H. Gelb, Mark Griep, Michael M. Gottesman, Henry A. Lardy, Gilbert Chu, David Lester, Judith G. Voet, Robert H. Burris, Hans Neurath, Michael Somogyi, Christian R. H. Raetz, Stanford Moore, Bertil Hille, Vernon L. Schramm, Elmer Mccollum, Daniel Kraft, Christopher T. Walsh, Christopher Chang, W. Wal...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14573 ... Read more

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Chapters: Stanley B. Prusiner, Michael Merzenich, J. Warren Madden, Benjamin Libet, Elizabeth Blackburn, Paul Ekman, Michael Roizen, Robert E. Ornstein, Leonard Hayflick, Julie Gerberding, Arthur J. Deikman, John Amsden Starkweather, Chris Hatcher, David Aaron Kessler, Joseph Derisi, Cynthia Kenyon, Bruce Alberts, Lawrence W. Green, Richard Feachem, Eva Harris, David E. Smith, Yuet Wai Kan, Merle Sande, Philippe Bourgois, Anselm Strauss, J. Michael Bishop, John Shine, Carlos Sueldo, Louann Brizendine, William W. Parmley, Leonard Shlain, Michael V. Drake, Rajeev Venkayya, C. Harmon Brown, William Francis Ganong, Jr., Gail R. Martin, Neil Risch, David Haussler, Peter Walter, Tim Mitchison, Marc Kirschner, Lynn Ponton, Felicia Stewart, Michael R. Harrison, William J. Rutter, Victoria Hale, David A. Wood, Wendy Max, Andrej Šali, Robert B. Aird, Martin Cline, Lenore Terr, Peter Kollman, Haile Debas, Michael P. Busch, Chao Tang, Melvin M. Grumbach, Steve Schroeder. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 209. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael M. Merzenich is a professor emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard, and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques. Using this, he definitively showed there to be multiple somatotopic maps of the body in the postcentral sulcus, and multiple tonotopic maps of the acoustic inputs in the superior temporal plane. He led the cochlear implant team at UCSF, which transferred its technology to Advanced Bionics, and their version is the Clarion cochlear implant. He collaborated with Bill Jenkins and Gregg Recanzone ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7504518 ... Read more

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An examination of prion diseases which contains research papers on the epidemiology of BSE, the molecular genetics of human familial prion diseases, the cell biology of prion synthesis and transgenic models of prion diseases. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World of Microbiology and Immunology, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 931 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the concepts, theories, discoveries, and pioneers in microbiology and immunology, using a mix of traditional academic and topical articles, this title addresses current ethical, legal, and social issues with special emphasis given to biological warfare and terrorism. ... Read more

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Title: Reivindican a premio Nobel. (Stanley Prusiner, ganador del premio Nobel de Medicina 1997)(TT: Nobel Prize winner recognized) (TA: Stanley Prusiner, winner of the Medicine Nobel Prize 1997)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 9, 1997
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v4Issue: n242Page: p3(1)

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Title: Ciencia! (noticias y acontecimientos relacionados a la ciencia durante 1997, incluye artículos relacionados)(TT: Science) (TA: news and events related to science during 1997, includes related articles)
Author: René Anaya
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
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