Grass Plants Bind, Retain, Uptake, and Transport Infectious Prions

Cell Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1168-1175

  Pritzkow, Sandra ^a   Morales, Rodrigo ^a   Moda, Fabio ^a,c   Khan, Uffaf ^a   Telling, Glenn C ^b   Hoover, Edward ^b   Soto, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PRION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GRASS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; HAMSTER; MESOCRICETUS; METABOLISM; POACEAE; PRION; TRANSMISSION;

CRICETINAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MESOCRICETUS; POACEAE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 84929955396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.04.036     Document Type: Article

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