Sex effect in mouse and human prion disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 648-654

  Loeuillet, Corinne ^a   Boelle, Pierre Yves ^b   Lemaire Vieille, Catherine ^a   Baldazza, Marie ^a   Naquet, Philippe ^c   Chambon, Pierre ^d   Cesbron Delauw, Marie France ^a   Valleron, Alain Jacques ^b   Gagnon, Jean ^a   Cesbron, Jean Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CASTRATED MALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OVARIECTOMY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77954740498     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/654818     Document Type: Article

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