Propagation of prion strains through specific conformers of the priori protein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 9032-9044

  Scott, Michael R ^a   Groth, Darlene ^a   Tatzelt, Jörg ^a,b   Torchia, Marilyn ^a   Tremblay, Patrick ^a   Dearmond, Stephen J ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030731124     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.12.9032-9044.1997     Document Type: Article

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