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Manganese Enhances Prion Protein Survival in Model Soils and Increases Prion Infectivity to Cells

Prion diseases are considered to be transmissible. The existence of sporadic forms of prion diseases such as scrapie implies an environmental source for the infectious agent. This would suggest that under certain conditions the prion protein, the accepted agent of transmission, can survive in the en...

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Autores principales: Davies, Paul, Brown, David R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19844576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007518