Transmission of chronic wasting disease identifies a prion strain causing cachexia and heart infection in hamsters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Bessen, Richard A ^a   Robinson, Cameron J ^a   Seelig, Davis M ^b   Watschke, Christopher P ^a   Lowe, Diana ^a   Shearin, Harold ^a   Martinka, Scott ^a   Babcock, Alex M ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFECTION; HEART MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SECRETION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PRION PROTEIN GENE; RAT; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHITE TAILED DEER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EPITHELIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAMSTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NOSE CAVITY; OLFACTORY BULB; PATHOLOGY; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CACHEXIA; CRICETINAE; EPITHELIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCARDIUM; NASAL CAVITY; OLFACTORY BULB; PRPSC PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

EID: 83155167557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028026     Document Type: Article

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