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Pathogenesis of natural and experimental scrapie

ReferenceBBS/E/I/00000645
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Nora Hunter
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution The Pirbright Institute
DepartmentThe Pirbright Institute Department
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 243,664
StatusCompleted
TypeInstitute Project
Start date 20/10/1997
End date 20/10/2001
Duration48 months

Abstract

Making use of PrP genotypes to predict accurately the response of any sheep to scrapie infection, this project has been set up to find out which tissues of sheep become infected at which stages following infection. A study of naturally infected sheep is running in parallel with one in which sheep will be artificially infected with experimental scrapie. Knowing how scrapie travels through peripheral tissues to reach the CNS will give important pointers to the modes of natural transmission of scrapie between sheep.

Summary

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Committee Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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