Suitability of protuberances on the third eyelids of sheep as a biopsy site for lymphoid follicles

Veterinary Record

Volumn 147, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 631-632

  Thuring, C M A ^a   McElroy, M C ^b   Sweeney, T ^a   Weavers, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Central Veterinary Research Laboratory Castleknock Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; PATHOLOGY; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 0034715785     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.147.22.631     Document Type: Article

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