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Iron content of ferritin modulates its uptake by intestinal epithelium: implications for co-transport of prions

The spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the deer and elk population has caused serious public health concerns due to its potential to infect farm animals and humans. Like other prion disorders such a sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob-disease of humans and Mad Cow Disease of cattle, CWD is caused by...

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Autores principales: Sunkesula, Solomon RB, Luo, Xiu, Das, Dola, Singh, Ajay, Singh, Neena
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20429907
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-6606-3-14