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Current contact info: dr. A.Bossers PhD, Central Institute for Animal Disease Control (CIDC-Lelystad), Lelystad, The Netherlands (+31-(0)320-238152)
Contents
Chapter 1. General Introduction. 3
1.1 Introduction. 4
1.2 Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. 5
1.3 Prion protein. 6
1.4 Prion protein conversion. 12
1.5 Linkage between PrP and barriers to transmission. 14
1.6 TSE strain variation 18
1.7 Aims and Outline of this Thesis. 21
Chapter 2. PrP allelic variants associated with natural scrapie. 33
Chapter 3. PrP genotype contributes to determining survival times of sheep
with natural scrapie. 47
Chapter 4. PrP genotype frequencies of the most dominant sheep breed in a
country free from scrapie. 59
Chapter 5. Scrapie susceptibility-linked polymorphisms modulate the in vitro
conversion of sheep prion protein to protease-resistant forms. 67
Chapter 6. Susceptibility of sheep for scrapie as assessed by in vitro conversion
of nine natural occurring variants of PrP. 85
Chapter 7. Molecular assessment of the potential transmissibilities of BSE and
scrapie to humans. 105
Chapter 8. Summary and General Discussion. 119
Samenvatting 133
Curriculum vitae 140
List of publications 141
Dankwoord/Acknowledgements 143
Thesis on Prion diseases
Yes! FINALLY its here, the digital version of my Thesis: Prion Diseases: Susceptibility and Transmissibility
