Relationships between PrPSc stability and incubation time for United States scrapie isolates in a natural host system.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), including scrapie in sheep (Ovis aries), are fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by the misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into a â-rich conformer (PrP(Sc)) that accumulates into higher-order structures in the brain and other tissu...

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Main Authors: Catherine E Vrentas, Justin J Greenlee, Trudy L Tatum, Eric M Nicholson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22916207/pdf/?tool=EBI