Experimental Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Detection of PrP Sc in the Small Intestine Relative to Exposure Dose and Age

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 289-301

  Stack, M J ^a   Moore, S J ^a   Vidal Diez, A ^a   Arnold, M E ^a   Jones, E M ^a   Spencer, Y I ^a   Webb, P ^a   Spiropoulos, J ^a   Powell, L ^a   Bellerby, P ^a   Thurston, L ^a   Cooper, J ^a   Chaplin, M J ^a   Davis, L A ^a   Everitt, S ^a   Focosi Snyman, R ^a   Hawkins, S A C ^a   Simmons, M M ^a   Wells, G A H ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Immunohistochemistry; PrP Sc; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEAT TREATMENT; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; JEJUNUM; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE, SMALL; PEYER'S PATCHES; PRPSC PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 79960279207     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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