Sympathetic innervation of lymphoreticular organs is rate limiting for prion neuroinvasion

Neuron

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-34

  Glatzel, Markus ^a   Heppner, Frank L ^a   Albers, Kathryn M ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR ANTIBODY;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SPINAL CORD; SPLEEN; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034891027     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00331-2     Document Type: Article

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