Efficient transmission of two different sheep scrapie isolates in transgenic mice expressing the ovine PrP gene

Journal of Virology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 5328-5334

  Crozet, Carole ^a,b   Flamant, Frederic ^a   Bencsik, Anna ^a   Aubert, Denise ^a   Samarut, Jacques ^a   Baron, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PRION PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035025625     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.11.5328-5334.2001     Document Type: Article

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