Infection route-independent accumulation of splenic abnormal prion protein

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 78-82

  Inoue, Yuji ^a,b   Yamakawa, Yoshio ^b   Sakudo, Akikazu ^a   Kinumi, Tomoya ^b   Nakamura, Yuko ^a,b   Matsumoto, Yoshitsugu ^a   Saeki, Keiichi ^a   Kamiyama, Tsuneo ^b   Onodera, Takashi ^a   Nishijima, Masahiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME KINETICS; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCRAPIE; SPLEEN DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 19944415286     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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