NR AJNA
AU Poleshchuk,N.N.; Kapitulets,S.P.; Il'kevich,Y.G.; Kvacheva,Z.B.
TI [The use of electron microscopy for diagnosing spongiform encephalopathies]
OT Ispol'zovanie elektronnoi mikroskopii dlia diagnostiki spongioformnykh entsefalopatii
QU Laboratornoe Delo 1991(4): 42-4
PT journal article
AB The authors suggest an unsophisticated approach to laboratory diagnosis of spongiform encephalopathies induced by unconventional prion viruses, consisting in electron microscopic detection of abnormal helical Scrapie-associated fibrils. These fibrils are detectable in human and animal brain tissue samples and in cell cultures.
MH Animal; Brain/*ultrastructure; Brain Diseases/microbiology/*pathology; English Abstract; Guinea Pigs; Human; In Vitro; Microscopy, Electron; *Prions; Virus Diseases/microbiology/*pathology
SP russisch
PO Sowjetunion