The effects of host age on follicular dendritic cell status dramatically impair scrapie agent neuroinvasion in aged mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 5199-5207

  Brown, Karen L ^a   Wathne, Gwennaelle J ^a   Sales, Jill ^b   Bruce, Moira E ^a   Mabbott, Neil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPLEMENT C4; DENDRITIC CELLS, FOLLICULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRION DISEASES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SPLEEN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77954100854     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802695     Document Type: Article

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