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. 1996 Dec;180(9):2127-35; discussion 2135-7.

[Human and animal spongiform encephalopathy. Update on December 17, 1996]

[Article in French]
J Brugère-Picoux  1 , A Rérat
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  • PMID: 9182000

[Human and animal spongiform encephalopathy. Update on December 17, 1996]

[Article in French]
J Brugère-Picoux et al. Bull Acad Natl Med. 1996 Dec.

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.

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