Human prion strain selection in transgen
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Kurt Giles; David V. Glidden; Smita Patel; Carsten Korth; Darlene Groth; Azucena
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objective: Transgenic (Tg) mice expressing chimeras of mouse and human prion proteins (PrPs) have shorter incubation periods for CreutzfeldtβJakob disease (CJD) prions than mice expressing fullβlength human PrP. Increasing the sequence similarity of the chimeric PrP to mouse PrP, by