Neuroinvasion of prions: Insigths from mouse models

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 705-712

  Brandner, Sebastian ^a   Klein, Michael A ^a   Frigg, Rico ^a   Pekarik, Valdimir ^a   Parizek, Petra ^a   Raeber, Alex ^a   Glatzel, Markus ^a   Schwarz, Petra ^a   Rulicke, Thomas ^a   Weissmann, Charles ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYO; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HAMSTER; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS ISOLATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 0033625969     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0958067000020911     Document Type: Review

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