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Transgenesis applied to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Transgenic research - 1 Dec 2002
Vilotte Jean-Luc, Laude Hubert
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) are fatal neurodegenerative disorders present in various mammals. TSEs have been studies intensively, even more so following the BSE crisis and the subsequent threat of a human nvCJD epidemic. In the 'protein-only' hypothesis, the infectious agent, called prion, is assumed to be a misfolded host protein. Transgenesis has mainly been applied to study the role of this...
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