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Altered electroretinogram b‐wave in a Suffolk sheep experimentally infected with scrapie
Author(s) -
Smith J. D.,
Greenlee J. J.,
Hamir A. N.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.165.6.179
Subject(s) - livestock , research center , agriculture , scrapie , animal agriculture , unit (ring theory) , medicine , disease , virology , veterinary medicine , biology , geography , forestry , psychology , prion protein , pathology , ecology , mathematics education
TRANSMISSIBLE spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases in which an abnormal isoform of the cellular prion protein (PrPSc) accumulates in tissues of the central nervous system. Accumulation of PrPSc occurs in the retina, a rostral projection of the central