Homework 2 (due on 10/22>
Electronic Journal / Virtual Library
題目 1. The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to the
American Stanley Prusiner for his pioneering discovery of Prions - a new
biological principle of infection. Stanley Prusiner has added prions to the list
of well known infectious agents including bacteria, viruses, fungi and
parasites. Please find his recently published paper concerning prion diseases
and the BSE crisis. Please show the abstract on your homepage and tell me
what is BSE.
Ans:
由Medline查到此篇paper:
Prusiner SB的Prion diseases and the BSE crisis.
BSE是Bovine spongiform encephalopathy的縮寫,照字面上的翻譯是"牛的-海綿狀的
腦脊髓",是一種發生在牛身上的神經性疾病.即俗稱之"狂牛症". 它是prion所引起,和CJD一樣,會被破壞其中樞神經系統.
題目2.How many papers is referecned in Medline, on line biomedical abstract
service, about prion? How many is concerning its structure? Can you find the
paper describe the structure of mouse prion? Please show its abstract on
your homepage.
Ans:所找到的paper: about "prion": 有1306篇,
concerning its structure:有167篇,
再查加上關鍵字"mouse"的話:有28篇,於是將其中題目看來有關mouse prion的,
以及和上題相關(即作者是Prusiner SB)的篇章,以abstract的形式show出來:
[第一部份]
[第二部份]共七篇
但是不曉得其內容是否真的具非常大的相關性?