Accumulation of Pathological Prion Protein PrPSc in the Skin of Animals with Experimental and Natural Scrapie
Prion infectivity and its molecular marker, the pathological prion protein PrPSc, accumulate in the central nervous system and often also in lymphoid tissue of animals or humans affected by transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Recently, PrPSc was found in tissues previously considered not to b...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2007
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876502/ |