A novel epitope for the specific detection of exogenous prion proteins in transgenic mice and transfected murine cell lines

Virology

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-31

  Vorberg, Ina ^a   Buschmann, Anne ^a   Harmeyer, Silke ^a   Saalmüller, Armin ^a   Pfaff, Eberhard ^a   Groschup, Martin H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRION PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SCRAPIE AGENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0033102301     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9561     Document Type: Article

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