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Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006
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Transmission of New Bovine Prion to Mice

Thierry G.M. Baron*Comments to Author , Anne-Gaëlle Biacabe*, Anna Bencsik*, and Jan P.M. Langeveld†
Author affiliations: *Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments, Lyon, France; †Central Institute for Animal Disease Control, Lelystad, the Netherlands

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Western blot analysis of disease-associated prion protein (PrPres) from proteinase K–treated brain homogenates of C57BL/6 mice infected with type H (lanes 2 and 4) or bovine spongiform encephalopathy isolates (lanes 3 and 5). PrPres of mice infected with an experimental scrapie strain (C506M3) (6) was used as a control (lane 1). Monoclonal antibodies used for detection of PrPres were Sha31 in panel A and 12B2 in panel B. Lane M, molecular mass markers: 39.8, 29, 20.1, and 14.3 kDa.

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