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Biology of PrPsc accumulation in two natural scrapie-infected sheep flocks.
Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc - 1 Nov 2004
Caplazi Patrick, O'Rourke Katherine, Wolf Cynthia, Shaw Daniel, Baszler Timothy V
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Sheep scrapie is a prion disease that requires interaction of exogenous prions with host prion protein (PrP) supporting prion formation. Disease is associated with deposition of a host-generated conformational variant of PrP, PrPsc, in a variety of tissues, including brain, resulting in fatal spongiform encephalopathy. Efficiency of PrPsc formation is determined by polymorphisms in the PrP-coding sequence. This...
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