Prions of ruminants show distinct splenotropisms in an ovine transgenic mouse model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Baron, Thierry ^a   Bencsik, Anna ^a   Morignat, Eric ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPLEEN; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BOVIDS; BRAIN LEVEL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; LYMPHOID TISSUE; METABOLISM; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CATTLE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; RUMINANTS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956416091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010310     Document Type: Article

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