Submissions tagged with Prion diseases
(2 documents)
33 votes
Small critical RNAs in the scrapie agent
Unconventional infectious agents cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diseases including scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in animals and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease i…
Received 16 June 2009 14:40 UTC; Posted 16 June 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Neuroscience
5 votes
ACAT1, Cav-1, and PrP expression in brains and skin fibroblasts from Sarda breed sheep with scrapie-resistant and scrapie-susceptible genotype.
Scrapie is an infective ovine neurodegenerative disease; the only identified component of the infectious agent being an aberrant isoform (PrPSc) of the cellular prion protein (PrPC). So far, no mea…
Received 08 October 2007 10:02 UTC; Posted 09 October 2007
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology
