Faecal shedding, alimentary clearance and intestinal spread of prions in hamsters fed with scrapie

Shedding of prions via faeces may be involved in the transmission of contagious prion diseases. Here, we fed hamsters 10 mg of 263K scrapie brain homogenate and examined the faecal excretion of disease-associated prion protein (PrP(TSE)) during the course of infection. The intestinal fate of ingeste...

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Autores principales: Krüger, Dominique, Thomzig, Achim, Lenz, Gudrun, Kampf, Kristin, McBride, Patricia, Beekes, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EDP Sciences 2009
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18828985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/vetres:2008042

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18828985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/vetres:2008042

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