On the horizon: a blood test for prions

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 149-151

  Supattapone, Surachai ^a   Geoghegan, James C ^a   Rees, Judy R ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAMSTER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVESTOCK; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCRAPIE; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CRICETINAE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES; PRPSC PROTEINS;

CRICETINAE;

EID: 33645963495     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.02.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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