Article
Variation in the characteristics of 10 mouse-passaged scrapie lines derived from five scrapie-positive sheep.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Feb 1991
Carp R I, Callahan S M
Abstract excerpt
Ten mouse-passaged scrapie lines were initiated from five sheep with clinical scrapie. Of the lines, five were initiated and passaged exclusively in mice with the s7s7 genotype and the remaining five lines were initiated in mice with the p7p7 genotype, with two of these lines subsequently being passaged exclusively in p7p7 mice and two being passaged mainly in p7p7 mice. Lines were passaged three or four times...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Brain
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Prions
- Scrapie
- Serial Passage
- Sheep
