Peripherally administrated prions reach the brain at sub-infectious quantities in experimental hamsters

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 795-800

  Chen, Baian ^a,b   Soto, Claudio ^a   Morales, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

263K; Prion; Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification (PMCA); Syrian hamster

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPLEEN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

263K; PRION; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION (PMCA); SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MESOCRICETUS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PRION DISEASES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SPLEEN;

EID: 84896698822     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.01.038     Document Type: Article

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