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Immunological differences between susceptible and resistant sheep during the preclinical phase of scrapie infection.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Apr 2007
Eaton S L, Rocchi M, González L, Hamilton S, Finlayson J, Sales J, Jeffrey M, Steele P J, Dagleish M P, Rodger S M, Reid H W, Chianini F
Abstract excerpt
In order to investigate the relationship between the immune response to scrapie infection and genetic susceptibility to the disease in sheep, immune cell subsets and prion protein (PrP) expression were determined in susceptible and resistant Suffolk sheep in the preclinical phase of infection. At 6 months of age, 12 ARQ/ARQ (susceptible) and nine ARR/ARR (resistant) scrapie-free Suffolk lambs were challenged...
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