The neuropathologic phenotype of experimental ovine BSE is maintained after blood transfusion

Blood

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 745-748

  Sisó, Sílvia ^a   González, Lorenzo ^b   Houston, Fiona ^b   Hunter, Nora ^b   Martin, Stuart ^b   Jeffrey, Martin ^b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SHEEP;

EID: 33745953153     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-12-5156     Document Type: Article

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