The epidemiology and transmission dynamics of sheep scrapie is as yet poorly understood.

Studies were performed on MB mice infected with the 87V mouse-adapted scrapie strain.

In an open flock, endemic scrapie is possible even in the absence of carriers.

In 1978, Merz identified scrapie-associated fibrils in infected mouse brains.

These observations suggest that multiplicity of CJD agents, as in the case of scrapie agents.

This is the first study to demonstrate an association between the SPRN gene and goat scrapie.

You know, protein fragments-likescrapie or mad-cow disease.

Urinary proteins from scrapie-infected mice with lymphocytic nephritis induced scrapie upon inoculation into noninfected indicator mice.

These results argue that scrapie causes a more fundamental change in the properties of the plasma membrane.

The drug pentosan was injected into mice seven hours after they had been deliberately infected with scrapie.

Humans are not susceptible to sheep scrapie.

We conclude that differentiated B cells are crucial for neuroinvasion by scrapie, regardless of the specificity of their receptors.

One doubts whether their "English farm" is ever going to suffer an outbreak of foot-and-mouth or scrapie.

But once eaten, they cause disease: scrapie, in sheep; mad-cow disease; and kuru, a brain disease in human beings.

The new scrapie test is reported in this week's Nature by scientists working at the Dutch institute for animal health.

Then comes a suspected outbreak of scrapie, a fatal degenerative disease that affects the nervous system of sheep and goats.