Humanized knock-in mice expressing chimeric prion protein showed varied susceptibility to different human prions.

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Mice to which human prions efficiently transmit in short incubation periods are valuable not only as research tools of human prions but also as reliable diagnostic tools. We recently produced a line of knock-in mouse expressing a unique human-mouse chimeric PrP (Ki-ChM mouse), which has mouse-specific residues practically only at the C-terminal part after posttranslational modification, and here we attempted...

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