Accumulation of L-type bovine prions in peripheral nerve tissues

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1151-1154

  Iwamaru, Yoshifumi ^a   Imamura, Morikazu ^a   Matsuura, Yuichi ^a   Masujin, Kentaro ^a   Shimizu, Yoshihisa ^a   Shu, Yujing ^a   Kurachi, Megumi ^a   Kasai, Kazuo ^a   Murayama, Yuichi ^a   Fukuda, Shigeo ^b   Onoe, Sadao ^b   Hagiwara, Ken'ichi ^c   Yamakawa, Yoshio ^c   Sata, Tetsutaro ^c   Mohri, Shirou ^a   Okada, Hiroyuki ^a   Yokoyama, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Animal Research Center   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; METABOLISM;

PRION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PRIONS;

EID: 77954445295     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.091882     Document Type: Article

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