Atypical scrapie isolates involve a uniform prion species with a complex molecular signature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Götte, Dorothea R ^a   Benestad, Sylvie L ^b   Laude, Hubert ^c   Zurbriggen, Andreas ^a   Oevermann, Anna ^a   Seuberlich, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GOAT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80855144845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027510     Document Type: Article

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