A rapid accurate culture assay for infectivity in transmissible encephalopathies

Journal of NeuroVirology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 352-361

  Liu, Ying ^a   Sun, Ru ^a   Chakrabarty, Trisha ^a   Manuelidis, Laura ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; CJD; Detergent; Neurons; Prion protein; Scrapie; Titer

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCRAPIE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL LINE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; MICE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 51849126040     PISSN: 13550284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13550280802105283     Document Type: Article

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