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Abnormal prion protein in genetically resistant sheep from a scrapie-infected flock.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Nov 2004
Madec J-Y, Simon S, Lezmi S, Bencsik A, Grassi J, Baron T
Abstract excerpt
The central molecular event in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, such as scrapie in sheep, is the accumulation in tissues of an abnormal isoform of the cellular prion protein. A previous investigation of 26 sheep showed that the accumulation of PrP(res) in brain correlated more with the prnp genotype than with the severity of the clinical disease. Here, the ability of a sandwich ELISA to detect PrP(res)...
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