Transmissibility studies of vacuolar changes in the rostral colliculus of pigs

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Konold, Timm ^a,b   Spiropoulos, John ^a   Chaplin, Melanie J ^a   Thorne, Leigh ^a   Spencer, Yvonne I ^a   Wells, Gerald A H ^a   Hawkins, Steve A C ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRION; RANDOMIZATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 73349110974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-5-35     Document Type: Article

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