Mapping the Prion Protein Distribution in Marsupials: Insights from Comparing Opossum with Mouse CNS

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Poggiolini, Ilaria ^a   Legname, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE MATTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 84870531806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050370     Document Type: Article

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