The association between PrP and infectivity in scrapie and BSE infected mouse brain

Archives of Virology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 275-289

  Somerville, R A ^a   Dunn, A J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; SARCOSINE; SARKOSYL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN; CATTLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRION; REFERENCE VALUE; SCRAPIE; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DETERGENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; SARCOSINE; SCRAPIE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0030019508     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01718399     Document Type: Article

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