Phenotype of disease-associated PrP accumulation in the brain of bovine spongiform encephalopathy experimentally infected sheep

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 827-838

  González, Lorenzo ^a   Martin, Stuart ^a   Houston, Fiona E ^b   Hunter, Nora ^b   Reid, Hugh W ^c   Bellworthy, Sue J ^a   Jeffrey, Martin ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; MESENCEPHALON; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHENOTYPE; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 14744289958     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80299-0     Document Type: Article

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