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Ex vivo propagation of infectious sheep scrapie agent in heterologous epithelial cells expressing ovine prion protein.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Mar 2001
Vilette D, Andreoletti O, Archer F, Madelaine M F, Vilotte J L, Lehmann S, Laude H
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases, are fatal degenerative disorders of the central nervous system that affect humans and animals. Prions are nonconventional infectious agents whose replication depends on the host prion protein (PrP). Transmission of prions to cultured c...
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