Lack of prion transmission by sexual or parental routes in experimentally infected hamsters

Prion

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 412-419

  Morales, Rodrigo ^a   Pritzkow, Sandra ^a   Hu, Ping Ping ^a,b   Duran Aniotz, Claudia ^a,c   Soto, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Chile)

Author keywords

263K; Parental transmission; Prion; Protein misfolding cyclic amplification; Sexual transmission; Syrian hamster

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRION; PRION DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SYRIAN HAMSTER; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

263K; PARENTAL TRANSMISSION; PRION; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84887830228     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/pri.26747     Document Type: Article

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