Interactions between wild-type and mutant prion proteins modulate neurodegeneration in transgenic mice

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1736-1750

  Telling, Glenn C ^a   Haga, Takeshi ^a   Torchia, Marilyn ^a   Tremblay, Patrick ^a   DeArmond, Stephen J ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

neurodegeneration; Prions; scrapie; transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MYOPATHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029740354     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.14.1736     Document Type: Article

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