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[Human and animal spongiform encephalopathy. Update on December 17, 1996]
1Ecole nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France.
Bulletin De L'Academie Nationale De Medecine
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
Recent papers about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) are reviewed: new data, maternal transmission of BSE, epidemiology of BSE in British cattle, structure of the PrP(res), biochemical signature of PrP(res), chronic pesticide-initiated modification of the prion protein, protein markers in cerebrospinal fluid.