Peripheral circulation of the prion infectious agent in transgenic mice expressing the ovine prion protein gene in neurons only

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 195, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 997-1006

  Crozet, Carole ^a,c   Lezmi, Stéphane ^a   Flamant, Frédéric ^b   Samarut, Jacques ^b   Baron, Thierry ^a   Bencsik, Anna ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; INJECTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PRPSC PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 33947386271     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512085     Document Type: Article

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