Amplification of purified prions in vitro

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 459, Issue , 2008, Pages 117-130

  Supattapone, Surachai ^a   Deleault, Nathan R ^a   Rees, Judy R ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplification; Prion, PrPSc; Purification; scrapie

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE;

EID: 84934436978     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-234-2_9     Document Type: Article

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