Scrapie in mice deficient in apolipoprotein E or glial fibrillary acidic protein

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 449-453

  Tatzelt, J ^a   Maeda, N ^b   Pekny, M ^c   Yang, S L ^a   Betsholtz, C ^c   Eliasson, C ^c   Cayetano, J ^a   Camerino, A P ^a   DeArmond, S J ^a   Prusiner, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; GENE TARGETING; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHEEP DISEASE;

EID: 10144221979     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.2.449     Document Type: Article

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