Protease-resistant prion protein in lymphoreticular tumors of variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease mice

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 511-513

  Cervenakova, Larisa ^a,b   Yakovleva, Oksana ^a   McKenzie, Carroll ^a  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^b HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INBRED STRAIN; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SPLENOMEGALY; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR GROWTH; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 33644517549     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1205.051348     Document Type: Article

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