Detection of PrP in extraneural tissues

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-45

  Brown, K L ^a   Ritchie, D L ^a   Mcbride, P A ^a   Bruce, M E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Follicular dendritic cell; Immunocytochemistry; Spleen

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MAMMALS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; TISSUE;

CELL/B.E; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; DENDRITICS; FATAL DISEASE; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTIOUS AGENTS; PRION DISEASE; SPLEEN; SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES;

CELLS;

ANTIBODY; ISOPROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCRAPIE; SPLEEN;

EID: 0034235267     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20000701)50:1<40::AID-JEMT7>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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