Normal neurogenesis and scrapie pathogenesis in neural grafts lacking the prion protein homologue Doppel

EMBO Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 347-352

  Behrens, A ^a   Brandner, S ^a   Genoud, N ^a   Aguzzi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPEL PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; HOMOZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCRAPIE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NEURONS; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; STEM CELLS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0035042258     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kve088     Document Type: Article

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