Description: Power of Prions : The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases, Hardcover by Brahic, Michel, ISBN 0691252386, ISBN-13 9780691252384, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The remarkable family of proteins that can make us very ill-but can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of lifeOver the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins. Research links various types of prion proteins to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's-and this has fueled the search for new drugs that could halt the progression of these terrible disorders. Other discoveries have revealed the essential roles prion proteins play in memory and immunity, and-in an extraordinary finding-the part they may have played in the beginnings of life on our planet. In this engaging and accessibl, Michel Brahic tells the story of these amazing and versatile , a leading researcher on diseases of the central nervous system, first describes the discovery of prions and their role in infection, beginning with early work on the animal disease scrapieand a mysterious human illness in New Guinea, apparently transmitted by cannibalism. Prions were eventually identified and named by Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s. (Brahic tells us Prusiner's alternate name for prion was "piaf.") Prion proteins were then revealed as the cause of other illnesses, from "mad cow" disease and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, to such noninfectious brain disorders as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. While the prion proteins responsible for diseases are definitively"bad," Brahic also explains that these abnormal prions are rare exceptions. Most of the time, prion proteins actually serve "good" and vital functions-and they may even have been present at the origin of life itself"--
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Book Title: Power of Prions : The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cau
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Power of Prions : The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Cognitive Science, Public Health, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Diseases
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.8 Oz
Subject Area: Science, Medical
Author: Michel Brahic
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
