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Retrovirus infection strongly enhances scrapie infectivity release in cell culture.
The EMBO journal - 21 Jun 2006
Leblanc Pascal, Alais Sandrine, Porto-Carreiro Isabel, Lehmann Sylvain, Grassi Jacques, Raposo Graça, Darlix Jean Luc
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Prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders associated in most cases with the accumulation in the central nervous system of PrPSc (conformationally altered isoform of cellular prion protein (PrPC); Sc for scrapie), a partially protease-resistant isoform of the PrPC. PrPSc is thought to be the causative agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The mechanisms involved in the intercellular transfer of...
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