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While some of the European and US authors do describe their laboratory techniques in detail, this collection of 14 contributed chapters goes beyond protocol recipes to more generally overview the latest research approaches. A Cambridge U. scientist intriguingly asks what 19th century scientist Thomas Huxley would have thought of the late 20th century scourge of prion disease, which has drawn attention as mad cow disease and human versions of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. From studying cellular and transgenic animal models toward developing therapeutic agents, others examine the normal and abnormal functioning of prion protein and how different strains target different brain regions. Baker is in the department of experimental psychology at the School of Clinical Veterinary Medicine in Cambridge, UK.Book News, Inc.

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School of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge, UK. A continuation of Prion Diseases, c1996, an earlier work in this series. Shifts to a concentration on the molecular pathogenesis of prion disease with an emphasis on the role of the prion protein. For clinical researchers. DNLM: Prion Diseases-physiopathology.