The UK epidemic of BSE: Slow virus or chronic pesticide-initiated modification of the prion protein? Part 1: Mechanisms for a chemically induced pathogenesis/transmissibility

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 429-443

  Purdey, M ^a  

^a High Barn Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHTHALIMIDE;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0029923896     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(96)90022-5     Document Type: Article

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