Biological and biochemical characterization of sheep scrapie in Japan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3421-3426

  Horiuchi, Motohiro ^a   Nemoto, Takuya ^a   Ishiguro, Naotaka ^a   Furuoka, Hidefumi ^a   Mohri, Shirou ^a   Shinagawa, Morikazu ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPAN; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 0036708339     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.9.3421-3426.2002     Document Type: Article

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