Tumor necrosis factor alpha-deficient, but not interleukin-6-deficient, mice resist peripheral infection with scrapie

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3338-3344

  Mabbott, Neil A ^a   Williams, Alun ^a,c   Farquhar, Christine F ^a   Pasparakis, Manolis ^b   Kollias, Giorgos ^b   Bruce, Moira E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; PRION PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; KURU; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCRAPIE AGENT; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERLEUKIN-6; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0034099095     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.7.3338-3344.2000     Document Type: Article

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