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Sod1 deficiency reduces incubation time in mouse models of prion disease.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Akhtar Shaheen, Grizenkova Julia, Wenborn Adam, Hummerich Holger, Fernandez de Marco Mar, Brandner Sebastian, Collinge John, Lloyd Sarah E
Abstract excerpt
Prion infections, causing neurodegenerative conditions such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep and BSE in cattle are characterised by prolonged and variable incubation periods that are faithfully reproduced in mouse models. Incubation time is partly determined by genetic factors including polymorphisms in the prion protein gene. Quantitative trait loci studies in mice and human...
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