Increased susceptibility of human-PrP transgenic mice to bovine spongiform encephalopathy infection following passage in sheep

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1174-1181

  Plinston, Chris ^a   Hart, Patricia ^a   Chong, Angela ^a   Hunter, Nora ^a   Foster, James ^a   Piccardo, Pedro ^a,b   Manson, Jean C ^a   Barron, Rona M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; CATTLE; CELL VACUOLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; SCRAPIE;

BOS; BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78651382639     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01578-10     Document Type: Article

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