Transmission barriers for bovine, ovine, and human prions in transgenic mice

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5259-5271

  Scott, Michael R ^a,b,c   Peretz, David ^a,b,d   Nguyen, Hoang Oanh B ^a   Dearmond, Stephen J ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 17444393595     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.9.5259-5271.2005     Document Type: Article

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