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Infective and Control Material

Infective and Control Material

When requesting, please confirm that all national and local requirements for handling the material at the appropriate level can be met.

Control Material (non-Infective)

Strain Cat. No.
VM RC 050
C57BL RC 051
RIII RC 052
PrP null (Manson7) RC 053

Infected Material References

  1. Zlotnik I, Rennie JC; J Comp Pathol 1963; 79 150 Further observations on the experimental transmission of scrapie from sheep and goats to laboratory mice.
  2. Dickinson AG; 1976; Scrapie in sheep and goats. In "Slow Virus Diseases of Animals and Man", ed. RH Kimberlin, North Holland, Amsterdam pp. 209-241
  3. Bruce ME, Dickinson AG, Fraser H; Neuropathol. Appl. Neurobiol. 1976; 2 (6) 471-478 Cerebral amyloidosis in scrapie in the mouse: effect of agent strain and mouse genotype
  4. Kimberlin RH, Walker CA; J Gen Virol 1978 Jun;39(3):487-96 Evidence that the transmission of one ource of scrapie agent to hamsters involves separation of agent strains from a mixture.
  5. Bruce M, Chree A, McConnell I, Foster J, Pearson G, Fraser H; Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 1994 Mar;343(1306):405-11 Transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie to mice: strain variation and the species barrier.
  6. Bruce ME, McConnell I, Fraser H, Dickinson AG; J Gen Virol 1991 Mar;72 ( Pt 3):595-603 The disease characteristics of different strains of scrapie in Sinc congenic mouse lines: implications for the nature of the agent and host control of pathogenesis.
  7. Manson JC, Clarke AR, Hooper ML, Aitchison L, McConnell I, Hope J.; Mol Neurobiol. 1994 Apr-Jun;8(2-3):121-7. 129/Ola mice carrying a null mutation in PrP that abolishes mRNA production are developmentally normal.