The prion organotypic slice culture assay-POSCA

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 555-562

  Falsig, Jeppe ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 42049098068     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.13     Document Type: Article

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