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Detection of PrP(Sc) in rectal biopsy and necropsy samples from sheep with experimental scrapie.
Journal of comparative pathology - 1 Jan 2000
Espenes A, Press C McL, Landsverk T, Tranulis M A, Aleksandersen M, Gunnes G, Benestad S L, Fuglestveit R, Ulvund M J
Abstract excerpt
Scrapie diagnosis is based on the demonstration of disease-associated prion protein (PrP(Sc)) in brain or, in the live animal, in readily accessible peripheral lymphoid tissue. Lymphatic tissues present at the rectoanal line were readily obtained from sheep without the need for anaesthesia. The presence of PrP(Sc) in such tissue was investigated in sheep infected orally with scrapie-infected brain material. The...
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