Sensitivity of the Western blot detection of prion protein PrPres in natural sheep scrapie

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-177

  Madec, J Y ^a   Groschup, M H ^b   Buschmann, A ^b   Belli, P ^a   Calavas, D ^a   Baron, Th ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

PrPres; Scrapie; Western blot

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRION PROTEIN; PYROXYLIN;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; FILM; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; ULTRACENTRIFUGE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; GENOTYPE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031727128     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(98)00113-X     Document Type: Article

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