Semen from scrapie-infected rams does not transmit prion infection to transgenic mice

Reproduction

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 415-418

  Sarradin, Pierre ^a   Melo, Sandrine ^a   Barc, Céline ^a   Lecomte, Céline ^a   Andréoletti, Olivier ^b   Lantier, Frédéric ^a   Dacheux, Jean Louis ^c   Gatti, Jean Luc ^c  

^a UR1282   (France)

^b IHAP   (France)

^c UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MALE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAM (SHEEP); SCRAPIE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; INJECTIONS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SEMEN; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 40949088877     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0388     Document Type: Article

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