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A 'unified theory' of prion propagation
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Mice devoid of PrP are resistant to scrapie
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Metadata
- Authors
- Weissmann, C.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1991-08
- Volume
- 352
- Issue
- 6337
- Pages
- 679-683
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2076847487
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 99
- FWCI
- 9.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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