Evidence for intrinsic control of scrapie pathogenesis in the murine visual system

A protease-resistant protein is a structural component of the Scrapie prion

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Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +16

Abnormal fibrils from scrapie-infected brain

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Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +14

Identification of a gene which controls the incubation period of some strains of scrapie agent in mice

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Veterinary Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +6

The disease characteristics of different strains of scrapie in Sinc congenic mouse lines: implications for the nature of the agent and host control of pathogenesis

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Veterinary Medicine, Genetics, Infectious Diseases +15

Scrapie infectivity, fibrils and low molecular weight protein

H. Diringer, Hans Gelderblom, H. Hilmert et al. · Nature · 1983 · 341 citations

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology +11