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Human prion strain selection in transgenic mice.
Annals of neurology - 1 Aug 2010
Giles Kurt, Glidden David V, Patel Smita, Korth Carsten, Groth Darlene, Lemus Azucena, DeArmond Stephen J, Prusiner Stanley B
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Transgenic (Tg) mice expressing chimeras of mouse and human prion proteins (PrPs) have shorter incubation periods for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) prions than mice expressing full-length human PrP. Increasing the sequence similarity of the chimeric PrP to mouse PrP, by reverting human residues to mouse, resulted in a Tg line, denoted Tg22372, which was susceptible to sporadic (s) CJD prions in...
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