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[Research progress on genetic diversity of sheep PRNP and resistance breeding].
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 1 Feb 2009
Guan Feng, Pan Lei, Shi Guo-Qing, Liu Shou-Ren, Yang Li-Guo
Abstract excerpt
Prion protein (PrP) is a pathogeny identified in recent years, which infects both mankind and other mammals. It has been proved that PrP is a sole protein able to duplicate and propagate with itself. PrP can express in many tissues and has important physiological functions in many species of animals. The conformation change of PrP is the origin of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). It has been...
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