Fatal flaws [[electronic resource] ] : how a misfolded protein baffled scientists and changed the way we look at the brain / / Jay Ingram |
Autore | Ingram Jay |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Prions
Prion diseases |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-299-28410-8
0-300-19518-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465857903321 |
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Fatal flaws [[electronic resource] ] : how a misfolded protein baffled scientists and changed the way we look at the brain / / Jay Ingram |
Autore | Ingram Jay |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Prions
Prion diseases |
ISBN |
1-299-28410-8
0-300-19518-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The mystery of kuru : a disease like no other -- Barflies and flatworms : how speculation and pure chance advance a new science -- Cannibalism : an answer guaranteed to stir things up -- Igor and Bill : the discoveries that bring kuru to world attention -- The life of a cell : a miraculous, and often precarious, complexity -- The death of a cell : by subterfuge, piracy, or out-and-out assault -- When is a virus not a virus? : when a disease-causing agent reproduces without genes -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease : waking up to the potential of a devastating affliction -- Magnificent molecules : the proteins that make life possible -- Protein origami : building the gothic cathedrals of life -- Stanley Prusiner's Heresy : an infectious agent that's a protein and nothing but -- An infectious idea : the campaign for the minds of researchers -- A portrait of the prion : and the experiments that point to their role in the human brain -- Mad cow disease : the uncertain ground where politics and science intersect -- Mad cow in humans : no barrier after all -- The Americas : mad mink, then cows -- Into the wild : deer, elk, moose, and caribou -- Origins : attempting to find where prions come from -- Cats but not dogs : when prions jump the species barrier -- Alzheimer's disease : plaques and tangles but so far no prions -- Parkinson's disease : looking more and more like a prion disease -- Lou Gehrig's disease : the emerging picture of a prion-like process in ALS -- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy : the athletes' plague -- And in the end... |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792050503321 |
Ingram Jay
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013 | ||
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Fatal flaws : how a misfolded protein baffled scientists and changed the way we look at the brain / / Jay Ingram |
Autore | Ingram Jay |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.8/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Prions
Prion diseases |
ISBN |
1-299-28410-8
0-300-19518-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The mystery of kuru : a disease like no other -- Barflies and flatworms : how speculation and pure chance advance a new science -- Cannibalism : an answer guaranteed to stir things up -- Igor and Bill : the discoveries that bring kuru to world attention -- The life of a cell : a miraculous, and often precarious, complexity -- The death of a cell : by subterfuge, piracy, or out-and-out assault -- When is a virus not a virus? : when a disease-causing agent reproduces without genes -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease : waking up to the potential of a devastating affliction -- Magnificent molecules : the proteins that make life possible -- Protein origami : building the gothic cathedrals of life -- Stanley Prusiner's Heresy : an infectious agent that's a protein and nothing but -- An infectious idea : the campaign for the minds of researchers -- A portrait of the prion : and the experiments that point to their role in the human brain -- Mad cow disease : the uncertain ground where politics and science intersect -- Mad cow in humans : no barrier after all -- The Americas : mad mink, then cows -- Into the wild : deer, elk, moose, and caribou -- Origins : attempting to find where prions come from -- Cats but not dogs : when prions jump the species barrier -- Alzheimer's disease : plaques and tangles but so far no prions -- Parkinson's disease : looking more and more like a prion disease -- Lou Gehrig's disease : the emerging picture of a prion-like process in ALS -- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy : the athletes' plague -- And in the end... |
Altri titoli varianti | How a misfolded protein baffled scientists and changed the way we look at the brain |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810651003321 |
Ingram Jay
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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