Christopher R. Birkett

Transmissions to mice indicate that ‘new variant’ CJD is caused by the BSE agent

M. E. Bruce, Robert Will, James W. Ironside et al. · Nature · 1997 · 2K citations

Autoimmune Disease, Disease Mechanism, Immunology +8

Use of monoclonal antibodies to analyse the expression of a multi‐tubulin family

Christopher R. Birkett, Kay Foster, L S Johnson et al. · FEBS Letters · 1985 · 167 citations · Full text

Molecular analysis of ovine prion protein identifies similarities between BSE and an experimental isolate of natural scrapie, CH1641

J. Hope, Sophie Wood, M. E. Bruce et al. · Journal of General Virology · 2000 · 154 citations

Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease, Genetics, Molecular Biology +18

Scrapie strains maintain biological phenotypes on propagation in a cell line in culture

Christopher R. Birkett · The EMBO Journal · 2001 · 150 citations · Full text

Biology, Biological Phenotypes, Plant-microbe Interaction +7

Transfer of Scrapie Prion Infectivity by Cell Contact in Culture

Nnennaya Kanu, Yutaka Imokawa, David Drechsel et al. · Current Biology · 2002 · 133 citations · Full text

Pathogenesis, Prion Disease, Scrapie Prion Infectivity +2