Highly bovine spongiform encephalopathy-sensitive transgenic mice confirm the essential restriction of infectivity to the nervous system in clinically diseased cattle

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 934-942

  Buschmann, Anne ^a   Groschup, Martin H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CATTLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILEUM; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TITRIMETRY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23944445627     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431602     Document Type: Article

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