Transgenic mouse brains for the evaluation and quality control of BSE tests

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 388, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 349-354

  Philipp, Wolfgang J ^a   Groth, Darlene ^b,c   Giles, Kurt ^c   Vodrazka, Pavel ^a,j   Schimmel, Heinz ^a   Feyssaguet, Muriel ^d   Toomik, Reet ^e   Schacher, Pascal ^f   Osman, Awad A ^g   Lachmann, Ingolf ^g   Wear, Angus ^h   Arsac, Jean Noel ⁱ   Prusiner, Stanley B ^b,c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b InPro Biotechnology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Bio Rad   (France)

^e IDEXX LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f Prionics AG   (Switzerland)

^g Roboscreen GmbH Leipzig   (Germany)

^h VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^j State Veterinary Institute Jihlava   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Prion protein; Rapid BSE test; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; QUALITY CONTROL;

BOVINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33847628404     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2007.040     Document Type: Article

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