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Research Article

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy strain-associated diversity of N-terminal proteinase K cleavage sites of PrPSc from scrapie-infected and bovine spongiform encephalopathy-infected mice

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Pages 393-412 | Received 10 Oct 2007, Published online: 20 Oct 2008

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