Microcebus murinus retina: A new model to assess prion-related neurotoxicity in primates

No effective treatment currently exists for prion diseases and therefore the development of experimental non-human primate models of prion neurotoxicity, to better understand the underlying mechanism and to test new treatments relevant to humans, represents an urgent medical need. However, the estab...

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Main Authors: Joan Torrent, Chadi Soukkarieh, Guy Lenaers, Carl Arndt, Valérie Forster, Serge Picaud, Nadine Mestre-Francés, Jean-Michel Verdier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-08-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996110001075