Disease that affects sheep and goats.
1 The epidemiology and transmission dynamics of sheep scrapie is as yet poorly understood.
2 Studies were performed on MB mice infected with the 87V mouse-adapted scrapie strain.
3 In an open flock, endemic scrapie is possible even in the absence of carriers.
4 In 1978, Merz identified scrapie - associated fibrils in infected mouse brains.
5 These observations suggest that multiplicity of CJD agents, as in the case of scrapie agents.
6 This is the first study to demonstrate an association between the SPRN gene and goat scrapie .
7 You know, protein fragments - like scrapie or mad-cow disease.
8 Urinary proteins from scrapie - infected mice with lymphocytic nephritis induced scrapie upon inoculation into noninfected indicator mice.
9 These results argue that scrapie causes a more fundamental change in the properties of the plasma membrane.
10 The drug pentosan was injected into mice seven hours after they had been deliberately infected with scrapie .
11 Humans are not susceptible to sheep scrapie .
12 We conclude that differentiated B cells are crucial for neuroinvasion by scrapie , regardless of the specificity of their receptors.
13 One doubts whether their "English farm" is ever going to suffer an outbreak of foot-and-mouth or scrapie .
14 But once eaten, they cause disease: scrapie , in sheep; mad-cow disease; and kuru, a brain disease in human beings.
15 The new scrapie test is reported in this week's Nature by scientists working at the Dutch institute for animal health.
16 Then comes a suspected outbreak of scrapie , a fatal degenerative disease that affects the nervous system of sheep and goats.
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