Association between incubation time and genotype in sheep experimentally inoculated with scrapie-positive brain homogenate

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 448-504

  Bulgin, Mari S ^a   Sorensen, Sharon J ^a   Matlock, Mary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PRURITUS; RECUMBENCY; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP DISEASE; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SHEEP; TIME;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646353443     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.67.3.448     Document Type: Article

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