An antibody raised against a conserved sequence of the prion protein recognizes pathological isoforms in human and animal prion diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1415-1420

  Piccardo, Pedro ^a   Langeveld, Jan P M ^b   Hill, Andrew F ^c   Dlouhy, Stephen R ^a   Young, Katherine ^a   Giaccone, Giorgio ^d   Rossi, Giacomina ^d   Bugiani, Marianna ^d   Bugiani, Orso ^d   Meloen, Rob H ^b   Collinge, John ^c   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^d   Ghetti, Bernardino ^a,e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRION PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CRICETINAE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 17344386598     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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