Infective and Control Material

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Control Material (non-Infective)

Infected Material References

1. Zlotnik I, Rennie JC; J Comp Pathol 1963; 79 150 Further observations on the experimental transmission of scrapie from sheep and goats to laboratory mice.
2. Dickinson AG; 1976; Scrapie in sheep and goats. In "Slow Virus Diseases of Animals and Man", ed. RH Kimberlin, North Holland, Amsterdam pp. 209-241
3. Bruce ME, Dickinson AG, Fraser H; Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. 1976; 2 (6) 471-478 Cerebral amyloidosis in scrapie in the mouse: effect of agent strain and mouse genotype
4. Kimberlin RH, Walker CA; J Gen Virol 1978 Jun;39(3):487-96 Evidence that the transmission of one ource of scrapie agent to hamsters involves separation of agent strains from a mixture.
5. Bruce M, Chree A, McConnell I, Foster J, Pearson G, Fraser H; Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 1994 Mar;343(1306):405-11 Transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie to mice: strain variation and the species barrier.
6. Bruce ME, McConnell I, Fraser H, Dickinson AG; J Gen Virol 1991 Mar;72 ( Pt 3):595-603 The disease characteristics of different strains of scrapie in Sinc congenic mouse lines: implications for the nature of the agent and host control of pathogenesis.
7. Manson JC, Clarke AR, Hooper ML, Aitchison L, McConnell I, Hope J.; Mol Neurobiol. 1994 Apr-Jun;8(2-3):121-7. 129/Ola mice carrying a null mutation in PrP that abolishes mRNA production are developmentally normal.