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Evidence for scrapie prions in muscle tissue of animals prior to onset of clinical disease

For Release: 19 May 2004

Organisation:Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Scientists from Berlin and Göttingen (Germany) discover, how scrapie agent spreads to muscles.

The infectious agent causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases such as scrapie can be detected in muscle tissues before clinical symptoms become visible.

The scrapie agent is able to propagate in muscle tissue to which it apparently spreads via nerves from the brain or spinal cord, as scientists from the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin and the Department of Neuropathology at the University of Goettingen (both in Ger-many) have discovered.

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