Characterization of atypical scrapie cases from Great Britain in transgenic ovine PrP mice

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2132-2138

  Griffiths, Peter C ^a   Spiropoulos, John ^a   Lockey, Richard ^a   Tout, Anna C ^a   Jayasena, Dhanushka ^a   Plater, Jane M ^a   Chave, Alun ^a   Green, Robert B ^a   Simonini, Sarah ^a   Thorne, Leigh ^a   Dexter, Ian ^a   Balkema Buschmann, Anne ^b   Groschup, Martin H ^b   Béringue, Vincent ^c   Le Dur, Annick ^c   Laude, Hubert ^c   Hope, James ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PATHOLOGY; PRION; SHEEP DISEASE; SURVIVAL;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955291479     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.018986-0     Document Type: Article

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