Distinct molecular phenotypes in bovine prion diseases

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 110-115

  Biacabe, Anne Gaëlle ^a   Laplanche, Jean Louis ^b   Ryder, Stephen ^c   Baron, Thierry ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FRANCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 1242321022     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400054     Document Type: Article

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