Molecular and transmission characteristics of primary-passaged ovine scrapie isolates in conventional and ovine PrP transgenic mice

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 11197-11207

  Thackray, Alana M ^a   Hopkins, Lee ^a   Spiropoulos, John ^b   Bujdoso, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CLASSIFICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55549130472     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01454-08     Document Type: Article

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