Altered electroretinogram b-wave in a Suffolk sheep experimentally infected with scrapie

Veterinary Record

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 179-181

  Smith, J D ^a   Greenlee, J J ^a   Hamir, A N ^a   Greenlee, M H West ^b  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OPTIC NERVE; PRPSC PROTEINS; RETINA; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 69549137055     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.165.6.179     Document Type: Article

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