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Table 2 Endpoint titration of serially passaged MM2-sCJD prions in human or ovine PrP mice

From: Emergence of two prion subtypes in ovine PrP transgenic mice infected with human MM2-cortical Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prions

Inoculum

Dilution

Mean incubation timea (n/n0)

  

tg650 (human PrP)

tg338 (ovine PrP)

MM2-sCJDb

10−4

351 ± 6 (5/5)

nd

 

10−5

441 ± 51 (3/5)

163 ± 10 (6/6)

 

10−6

424; 501 (2/6)

227 ± 22 (4/6)

 

10−7

>600 (0/6)

> 500 (0/6)

 

10−8

>600 (0/6)

>500 (0/6)

  1. n/n0: number of mice with neurological disease and positive for PrPres in the brain by immunoblotting/number of inoculated mice
  2. aDays ± SE of the mean.
  3. bMM2-sCJD iteratively passaged in either tg650 or tg338 mice.
  4. nd: not done