Sensitive detection of PrPSc by Western blot assay based on streptomycin sulphate precipitation

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 328-336

  Dong, C F ^a   Huang, Y X ^a   An, R ^a,b   Chen, J M ^a   Wang, X F ^a   Shan, B ^a   Lei, Y J ^a,b   Han, L ^a   Zhang, B Y ^a   Han, J ^a   Dong, X P ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Prion; PrPSc; Streptomycin sulphate precipitation; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE;

PRION PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; URINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRPSC PROTEINS; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 34748836985     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2007.01062.x     Document Type: Article

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