Prion strain discrimination using luminescent conjugated polymers

Nature Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1023-1030

  Sigurdson, Christina J ^a   Nilsson, Peter R K ^a   Hornemann, Simone ^b   Manco, Giuseppe ^a   Polymenidou, Magdalini ^a   Schwarz, Petra ^a   Leclerc, Mario ^c   Hammarström, Per ^d   Wüthrich, Kurt ^b,e   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENT CONJUGATED POLYMER; POLYMER; PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN SLICE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCRAPIE; SHEEP DISEASE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; DEER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; POLYMERS; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 36749074412     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1131     Document Type: Article

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