Accumulation of mono-glycosylated form-rich, plaque-forming PrPSc in the second atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy case in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 305-308

  Hagiwara, Ken'ichi ^a,b   Yamakawa, Yoshio ^a,b   Sato, Yuko ^a   Nakamura, Yuko ^a   Tobiume, Minoru ^a   Shinagawa, Morikazu ^b   Sata, Tetsutaro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Japan Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; JAPAN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPC PROTEINS; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 34948853876     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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