Award details

EuroVolTE

Reference	BBS/E/I/00000979
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Moira Bruce
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	The Pirbright Institute
Department	The Pirbright Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	1,142
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/01/2003
End date	31/12/2006
Duration	48 months

Abstract

The general purpose of this project is to develop a new animal model very susceptible to TSE and able to differentiate scrapie from BSE. Accordingly to the experts comments indicated in the evaluation summary report, the present project will focus on three issues. Namely: 1. to clarify the potential of the bank vole to function as a very sensitive model for TSE agents' detection; 2. to clarify the potential of the bank vole for strain typing and differentiating between scrapie and BSE; 3. to investigate some aspects of the species barrier looking, in particular, into the significance of PrP amino acid sequence.

Summary

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

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