There is no safe dose of prions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Fryer, Helen R ^a   McLean, Angela R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCRAPIE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS LOAD; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCRAPIE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 80051676892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023664     Document Type: Article

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