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Diagnosis of preclinical scrapie in live sheep by the immunohistochemical examination of rectal biopsies.
The Veterinary record - 29 Mar 2008
González L, Dagleish M P, Martin S, Dexter G, Steele P, Finlayson J, Jeffrey M
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In most sheep infected with a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (tse) the disease-associated prion protein (PrP(d)) accumulates in tissues of the lymphoreticular system, suggesting that it might be detected in biopsy specimens. A procedure has been developed to obtain biopsy specimens of re...
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