The mouse model for scrapie: Inoculation, clinical scoring, and histopathological techniques

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 849, Issue , 2012, Pages 453-471

  Di Bari, Michele A ^a   Nonno, Romolo ^a   Agrimi, Umberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioassays; Histopathology; Infectivity; Prion diseases

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFORMATION; INOCULATION; LABORATORY TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCRAPIE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SAFETY; STAINING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; HEMATOXYLIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; SAFETY; SCRAPIE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84864607753     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-551-0_31     Document Type: Article

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