Widespread PrpSc accumulation in muscles of hamsters orally infected with scrapie

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 530-533

  Thomzig, Achim ^a   Kratzel, Christine ^a   Lenz, Gudrun ^a   Krüger, Dominique ^a   Beekes, Michael ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; PRION PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACK; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FORELIMB; HAMSTER; HEAD; HINDLIMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROVOCATION TEST; RED DEER; RISK FACTOR; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TONGUE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZOONOSIS; BACK MUSCLE; EXPERIMENTAL HAMSTER; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CRICETINAE; OVIS ARIES; SCRAPIE PRION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CATTLE; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESOCRICETUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE;

EID: 0038110004     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor827     Document Type: Article

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