The oral secretion of infectious scrapie prions occurs in preclinical sheep with a range of PRNP genotypes

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 566-571

  Gough, Kevin C ^a   Baker, Claire A ^a   Rees, Helen C ^a   Terry, Linda A ^b   Spiropoulos, John ^b   Thorne, Leigh ^b   Maddison, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRNP GENE; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOUTH; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

MUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84855936004     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.05579-11     Document Type: Article

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