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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgement | |
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| An introduction to prion research | |
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| Terminology of prion diseases | |
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| A sideways look at the scrapie saga: 1732-1991 | |
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| The search for the scrapie agent: 1961-1981 | |
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| Photo- and radiobiology of the scrapie agent | |
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| The scrapie-kuru connection: recollection of how it came about | |
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| Kuru and scrapie | |
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| Spongiform encephalopathies - slow, latent, and temperate virus infections - in retrospect | |
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| Prion diseases from a neuropathologist's perspective | |
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| Reflections and highlights: a life with kuru | |
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| Fieldwork in the South Fore: the process of ethnographic inquiry | |
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| Molecular genetics of inherited, sporadic and iatrogenic prion disease | |
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| Genetic and transgenic studies of prion proteins in Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease | |
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| Prion protein gene analysis and transmission studies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | |
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| The molecular genetics of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy | |
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| Indiana variant of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease | |
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| Inherited prion disease in Libyan Jews | |
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| Fatal familial insomnia: a prion disease with a mutation in codon 178 of the prion protein gene - study of two kindreds | |
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| Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemiology | |
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| Familial dementia in relation to the 144 bp insert and its implications | |
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| Prion disease: the spectrum of pathology and diagnostic considerations | |
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| Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: a brief epidemiography, 1985-1991 | |
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| The discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and observations on the vacuolar changes | |
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| Association of ovine PrP protein variants with the Sip gene and their similarity to bovine PrP protein | |
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| Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: the history, scientific, political and social issues | |
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| Transmissible mink encephalopathy | |
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| The lymphoreticular system in the pathogenesis of scrapie | |
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| Association of PrP gene polymorphisms with the incidence of natural scrapie in British sheep | |
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| PrP gene allelic variants and natural scrapie in French Ile-de-France and Romanov sheep | |
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| Nucleic acids and scrapie prions | |
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| Modified host nucleic acids: a role in scrapie infection? | |
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| Cataloguing post-translational modifications of the scrapie prion protein by mass spectrometry | |
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| Glycosylinositol phospholipid anchors of prion proteins | |
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| Interaction of the prion protein with cellular proteins | |
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| Molecular cloning and structural analysis of a candidate chicken prion protein | |
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| Dissecting the pathway of scrapie prion synthesis in cultured cells | |
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| Effects of scrapie infection on cellular PrP metabolism | |
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| Modification and expression of prion proteins in cultured cells | |
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| Transgenic approaches to experimental and natural prion diseases | |
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| Scrapie prion protein accumulation correlates with neuropathology and incubation times in hamsters and transgenic mice | |
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| The basis of strain variation in scrapie | |
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| The genetics of prion susceptibility in the mouse | |
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| How can the 'protein only' hypothesis of prion propagation be reconciled with the existence of multiple prion strains? | |
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| Prion biology | |
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| Prions and neurodegenerative diseases | |