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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Allen Herbst
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-44563 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PLoS pathogens 20131107 11
Prion diseases are driven by the strain-specific, template-dependent transconformation of the normal cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) into a disease specific isoform PrP(Sc). Cell culture models of prion infection generally use replicating cells resulting in lower levels of prion accumulation compared to animals. Using non-replicating cells allows the accumulation of higher levels of PrP(Sc) and, thus, greater amounts of infectivity. Here, we infect non-proliferating muscle fiber myotube cultures ...[more]