If I start with AltaVista and do a simple search for 'prions', what do I get?
* about 1000 occurrences *
, and these from the first 100:
Prusiner's
Prions, prions, prions
Parenchymal infections: prions
BSE abstracts
from NZ
# 1 [of 11 total]
Mad Cow Disease: much more serious than AIDS
(Michael Greger)
IAO BSE collection
Researchers Homing In On Mechanisms Of Encephalopathic Diseases
(Karen Kreeger)
Prions
from science.org
Prion links
from Holland
Heat Shock Proteins, Chaperones and the Prion Encephalopathies-References
(see #2 for an abstract)
300+ BSE references
Some notes on scrapie
(Chris Seidel)
Prion Propagation in Mice Expressing Human and Chimeric PrP Transgenes Implicates the Interaction of Cellular PrP with Another Protein
(Cell Oct 1995 --abstract)
Genetic Approaches to Understanding Neurodegeneration
(George A. Carlson)
Sinai's Prion Page
Prion diseases
(Shaun Heaphy)
Some additional links:
An Overview of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
and Its Possible Correlation to Humans (Nicole Bartlett)
Amyloidoses and Prion Diseases
(Tulane)
Frontiers of Protein Structure Prediction
for PrP
Bluff Your Way in BSE
(a glossary)
Structure of Amyloid A4-(1-40) Peptide of Alzheimer's Disease
(P. Rösch)
A Discovery that Explains the BSE Epidemic in the U.K.
(nut theory?)
NEW BSE FINDINGS
(May 1996, Sean Henahan)
The Disease Causing Agent
Aetiology
(D. Curtis)
UCSF 'Picture Gallery'
Stanley Prusiner, M.D.
Mad Cows and Englishmen
(The Economist [March 1996])
References on protein aggregation
from UCSC
The articles that have appeared in recent scientific journals concerning BSE
The phenomena seen with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
and an attempt to explain what is seen