Persistent retroviral infection with MoMuLV influences neuropathological signature and phenotype of prion disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-126

  Krasemann, Susanne ^a   Neumann, Melanie ^a   Luepke, Jan Paul ^a   Grashorn, Juliane ^a   Wurr, Steffanie ^a   Stocking, Carol ^b   Glatzel, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Disease phenotype; MoMuLV; Neuropathological signature; Prion disease; Prions; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; INCUBATION TIME; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MICE; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84862730847     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-012-0944-1     Document Type: Article

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