Elevated silver, barium and strontium in antlers, vegetation and soils sourced from CWD cluster areas: Do Ag/Ba/Sr piezoelectric crystals represent the transmissible pathogenic agent in TSEs?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-225

  Purdey, Mark ^a  

^a High Barn Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BARIUM; CELL PROTEIN; MANGANESE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEOGLYCAN; SILVER; STRONTIUM; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CHELATION; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CRYSTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HORN; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POLARIZATION; POLLUTANT; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL; VEGETATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANTLERS; BARIUM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NORTH AMERICA; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILVER; SOIL; STRONTIUM;

CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3242756751     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.02.041     Document Type: Article

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