New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent: Threshold survival after ashing at 600°C suggests an inorganic template of replication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 3418-3421

  Brown, Paul ^a,b   Rau, Edward H ^b   Johnson, Bruce K ^a   Bacote, Alfred E ^a   Gibbs Jr , Clarence J ^a   Gajdusek, D Carleton ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Incineration; Medical waste; Prion; Scrapie; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TREATMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE AGENT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; HEAT; MESOCRICETUS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 0034724227     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.050566797     Document Type: Article

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