Prion-induced toxicity in PrP transgenic Drosophila

Experimental and Molecular Pathology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 194-201

  Thackray, Alana M ^a   Muhammad, Farooq ^a   Zhang, Chang ^a   Denyer, Margaret ^b   Spiropoulos, John ^b   Crowther, Damian C ^a   Bujdoso, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformation; Drosophila; Neurotoxicity; Prion disease; PrP; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; LARVAL STAGE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCRAPIE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; PROTEOSTASIS DEFICIENCIES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIAN PRION; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862787748     PISSN: 00144800     EISSN: 10960945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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