Discrimination between prion-infected and normal blood samples by protein misfolding cyclic amplification

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 996-1002

  Tattum, M Howard ^a,b   Jones, Samantha ^a,b   Pal, Suvankar ^a,b   Collinge, John ^a,b   Jackson, Graham S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FOLDING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PRPSC PROTEINS;

EID: 77951690405     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02595.x     Document Type: Article

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