Phenotypic similarity of transmissible mink encephalopathy in cattle and L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a mouse model

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1887-1894

  Baron, Thierry ^a   Bencsik, Anna ^a   Biacabe, Anne Gaëlle ^a   Morignat, Eric ^a   Bessen, Richard A ^b  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSIBLE MINK ENCEPHALOPATHY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 37049035626     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1312.070635     Document Type: Article

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