Intraspecies prion transmission results in selection of sheep scrapie strains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yokoyama, Takashi ^a   Masujin, Kentaro ^a   Schmerr, Mary Jo ^b   Shu, Yujing ^a   Okada, Hiroyuki ^a   Iwamaru, Yoshifumi ^a   Imamura, Morikazu ^a   Matsuura, Yuichi ^a   Murayama, Yuichi ^a   Mohri, Shirou ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRIEDALE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUFFOLK; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BOVINAE; MUS; OVIS ARIES; SCRAPIE PRION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CATTLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649517822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015450     Document Type: Article

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