Transmission of elk and deer prions to transgenic mice

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 9104-9114

  Tamgüney, Gültekin ^a   Giles, Kurt ^a,b   Bouzamondo Bernstein, Essia ^a   Bosque, Patrick J ^a,b,d   Miller, Michael W ^c   Safar, Jiri ^a,b   DeArmond, Stephen J ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEER; ELK; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULE DEER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RED DEER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WHITE TAILED DEER; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; DEER; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; RUMINANTS; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS NELSONI; MUS MUSCULUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; OVIS;

EID: 33748483636     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00098-06     Document Type: Article

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