Prion protein devoid of the octapeptide repeat region restores susceptibility to scrapie in PrP knockout mice

Neuron

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 399-408

  Flechsig, Eckhard ^a   Shmerling, Doron ^a   Hegyi, Ivan ^b   Raeber, Alex J ^b   Fischer, Marek ^a   Cozzio, Antonio ^a   Von Mering, Christian ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^b   Weissmann, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; INFECTION RISK; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE;

EID: 0033695126     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)00046-5     Document Type: Article

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