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Small-ruminant lentivirus enhances PrPSc accumulation in cultured sheep microglial cells.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2008
Stanton James B, Knowles Donald P, O'Rourke Katherine I, Herrmann-Hoesing Lynn M, Mathison Bruce A, Baszler Timothy V
Abstract excerpt
Sheep scrapie is the prototypical transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease), which has a fundamental pathogenesis involving conversion of normal cellular prion protein (PrP(C) [C superscript stands for cellular]) to disease-associated prion protein (PrP(Sc) [Sc superscript stands for sheep scrapie]). Sheep microglial cell cultures, derived from a prnp 136VV/171QQ near-term fetal brain, were...
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