| Literature DB >> 20512142 |
Baian Chen1, Rodrigo Morales, Marcelo A Barria, Claudio Soto.
Abstract
Prions, the proteinaceous infectious agent responsible for prion diseases, can be detected with high sensitivity by protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) technology. Here we describe a quantitative PMCA procedure to calculate the concentration of very low levels of prions in biological samples. Using this procedure, we determined the quantities of misfolded prion protein (PrP(Sc)) in brain, spleen, blood and urine of scrapie-affected hamsters.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20512142 PMCID: PMC4049222 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1465
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Methods ISSN: 1548-7091 Impact factor: 28.547