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Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Dispatch

Oral Transmission of L-type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Primate Model

Nadine Mestre-FrancésComments to Author , Simon Nicot, Sylvie Rouland, Anne-Gaëlle Biacabe, Isabelle Quadrio, Armand Perret-Liaudet, Thierry Baron, and Jean-Michel Verdier
Author affiliations: Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U710, Montpellier, France (N. Mestre-Francés, S. Rouland, J.-M. Verdier); Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier (N. Mestre-Francés, S. Rouland, J.-M. Verdier); École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France (N. Mestre-Francés, S. Rouland, J.-M. Verdier); Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, Lyon, France (S. Nicot, A.-G. Biacabe, T. Baron); Hopitaux Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (I. Quadrio, A. Perret-Liaudet); Université Lyon 1, Lyon (I. Quadrio, A. Perret-Liaudet); INSERM U1028, Lyon (I. Quadrio, A. Perret-Liaudet); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon (I. Quadrio, A. Perret-Liaudet)

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Figure 1. Western blot analysis of protease-resistant prion protein in the brain (thalamus/hypothalamus) and spleen of mouse lemurs inoculated with a cattle-derived L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) isolate by oral and intracerebral routes by using SHa31 monoclonal antibody against prion protein. Lanes 1, 7: cattle L-type BSE isolate (02-2528); lanes 2, 3: brain sample from intracerebral inoculation at 5 mg; lane 4: brain sample from oral inoculation at 50 mg; lanes 5, 6: brain sample from oral inoculation at 5 mg; lanes 8, 9: spleen samples from oral inoculation at 5 mg, positive and negative, respectively.

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