Prion protein alleles showing a protective effect on the susceptibility of sheep to scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 7306-7309

  Vaccari, Gabriele ^a   D'Agostino, Claudia ^a   Nonno, Romolo ^a   Rosone, Francesca ^b   Conte, Michela ^a   Di Bari, Michele Angelo ^a   Chiappini, Barbara ^a   Esposito, Elena ^a   De Grossi, Luigi ^b   Giordani, Francesco ^b   Marcon, Stefano ^a   Morelli, Luisella ^a   Borroni, Renata ^a   Agrimi, Umberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERADICATION THERAPY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP DISEASE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34250850678     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02880-06     Document Type: Article

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