Submissions tagged with prions
(2 documents)
4 votes
In vitro synergistic anti-prion effect of cholesterol ester modulators
Background. Our studies on the role of cholesterol in prion infection/replication showed that brains and peripheral cells of sheep susceptible to or suffering from Scrapie were characterized by an …
Received 21 October 2009 13:06 UTC; Posted 21 October 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology
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
