Molecular screening of sheep for bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 159-162

  Hill, Andrew F ^a   Sidle, Katie C L ^a   Joiner, Susan ^a   Keyes, Paula ^b   Martin, Trevor C ^b   Dawson, Michael ^b   Collinge, John ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Prion disease; Prion protein; Prion strains; Protein conformation; Protein glycosylation; Scrapie

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GENETIC SCREENING; GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 0032561178     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00736-8     Document Type: Article

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