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Enteroglial and neuronal involvement without apparent neuron loss in ileal enteric nervous system plexuses from scrapie-affected sheep

Marruchella, Giuseppe, Ligios, Ciriaco, Albanese, Valeria, Cancedda, Maria Giovanna, Madau, Laura, Lalatta-Costerbosa, Giovanna, Mazzoni, Maurizio, Clavenzani, Paolo, Chiocchetti, Roberto, Sarli, Giuseppe, De Grossi, Luigi, Agrimi, Umberto, Aguzzi, Adriano, Di Guardo, Giovanni

Journal of General Virology 2007; 88(10):2899 · https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.82907-0

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1 Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
2 Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy
3 Department of Veterinary Morphophysiology and Animal Productions, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia (Bologna), Italy
4 Department of Veterinary Public Health and Animal Pathology, Division of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia (Bologna), Italy
5 Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Viterbo, Italy
6 Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Rome, Italy
7 Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland