Chronic wasting disease of elk: Transmissibility to humans examined by transgenic mouse models

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 7944-7949

  Kong, Qingzhong ^a   Huang, Shenghai ^a   Zou, Wenquan ^a   Vanegas, Difernando ^a   Wang, Meiling ^a   Wu, Di ^a   Yuan, Jue ^a   Zheng, Mengjie ^a   Bai, Hua ^a   Deng, Huayun ^b   Chen, Ken ^c   Jenny, Allen L ^d   O'Rourke, Katherine ^e   Belay, Ermias D ^f   Schonberger, Lawrence B ^f   Petersen, Robert B ^a   Sy, Man Sun ^a   Chen, Shu G ^a   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervids; Chronic wasting disease; CWD; Deer; Elk; Prion; Species barrier; Transgenic mice; Transmissibility to humans

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CANADA; CATTLE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DEER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SURVIVAL RATE; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

EID: 24344492256     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2467-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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