Complement facilitates early prion pathogenesis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 488-492

  Klein, Michael A ^a   Kaeser, Pascal S ^a   Schwarz, Petra ^a   Weyd, Heiko ^a   Xenarios, Ioannis ^b   Zinkernagel, Rolf M ^a   Carroll, Michael C ^c   Verbeek, J Sjef ^d   Botto, Marina ^e   Walport, Mark J ^e   Molina, Hector ^f   Kalinke, Ulrich ^g   Acha Orbea, Hans ^b   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; LYMPHOTOXIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; GENOTYPE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SCRAPIE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT; SCRAPIE; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 0035047889     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/86567     Document Type: Article

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