Brugère-Picoux J, Rérat A
Ecole nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France.
Bull Acad Natl Med. 1996 Dec;180(9):2127-35; discussion 2135-7.
Recent papers about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) are reviewed: new data, maternal transmission of BSE, epidemiology of BSE in British cattle, structure of the PrP(res), biochemical signature of PrP(res), chronic pesticide-initiated modification of the prion protein, protein markers in cerebrospinal fluid.