A crucial role for B cells in neuroinvasive scraple

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6661, 1997, Pages 687-690

  Klein, Michael A ^a   Frigg, Rico ^a   Flechsig, Eckhard ^a   Raeber, Alex J ^a   Kalinke, Ulrich ^a   Bluethmann, Horst ^b   Bootz, Frank ^a   Suter, Marc ^a   Zinkernagel, Rolf M ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KURU; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SCRAPIE;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, SCID; PRIONS; SCRAPIE;

EID: 0031444295     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37789     Document Type: Article

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