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  • Race, B., Meade-White, K., Oldstone, M. B. A., Race, R., Chesebro, B. Detection of prion infectivity in fat tissues of scrapie-infected mice PLoS Pathogens  2008 4:e1000232  DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000232  PMID:19057664  PMCID:PMC2585054
  • Meade-White, K., Race, B., Trifilo, M., Bossers, A., Favara, C., Lacasse, R., Miller, M., Williams, E., Oldstone, M., Race, R., Chesebro, B. Resistance to chronic wasting disease in transgenic mice expressing a naturally occurring allelic variant of deer prion protein Journal of Virology  2007 81:4533-4539  DOI:10.1128/jvi.02762-06  PMID:17314157
  • Trifilo, M. J., Yajima, T., Gu, Y. S., Dalton, N., Peterson, K. L., Race, R. E., Meade-White, K., Portis, J. L., Masliah, E., Knowlton, K. U., Chesebro, B., Oldstone, M. B. A. Prion-induced amyloid heart disease with high blood infectivity in transgenic mice Science  2006 313:94-97  DOI:10.1126/science.1128635  PMID:16825571  PMCID:PMC1820586
  • Chesebro, B., Trifilo, M., Race, R., Meade-White, K., Teng, C., LaCasse, R., Raymond, L., Favara, C., Baron, G., Priola, S., Caughey, B., Masliah, E., et al. Anchorless prion protein results in infectious amyloid disease without clinical scrapie Science  2005 308:1435-1439  DOI:10.1126/science.1110837  PMID:15933194
  • Criado, J. R., Sanchez-Alavez, M., Conti, B., Giacchino, J. L., Wills, D. N., Henriksen, S. J., Race, R., Manson, J. C., Chesebro, B., Oldstone, M. B. A. Mice devoid of prion protein have cognitive deficits that are rescued by reconstitution of PrP in neurons Neurobiology of Disease  2005 19:255-265  DOI:10.1016/j.nbd.2004.01.001  PMID:15837581
  • Oldstone, M. B. A., Race, R., Thomas, D., Lewicki, H., Homann, D., Smelt, S., Holz, A., Koni, P., Lo, D., Chesebro, B., Flavell, R. Lymphotoxin-alpha- and lymphotoxin-beta-deficient mice differ in susceptibility to scrapie: Evidence against dendritic cell involvement in neuroinvasion Journal of Virology  2002 76:4357-4363  DOI:10.1128/jvi.76.9.4357-4363.2002  PMID:11932402
  • Race, R., Oldstone, M., Chesebro, B. Entry versus blockade of brain infection following oral or intraperitoneal scrapie administration: Role of prion protein expression in peripheral nerves and spleen Journal of Virology  2000 74:828-833  DOI:10.1128/jvi.74.2.828-833.2000  PMID:10623745
  • Picchio, G. R., Gulizia, R. J., Wehrly, K., Chesebro, B., Mosier, D. E. The cell tropism of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 determines the kinetics of plasma viremia in SCID mice reconstituted with human peripheral blood leukocytes Journal of Virology  1998 72:2002-2009  PMID:9499054  PMCID:PMC109493
  • Raeber, A. J., Race, R. E., Brandner, S., Priola, S. A., Sailer, A., Bessen, R. A., Mucke, L., Manson, J., Aguzzi, A., Oldstone, M. B. A., Weissmann, C., Chesebro, B. Astrocyte-specific expression of hamster prion protein (prp) renders prp knockout mice susceptible to hamster scrapie EMBO Journal  1997 16:6057-6065  DOI:10.1093/emboj/16.20.6057  PMID:9321385  PMCID:PMC1326289
  • Race, R. E., Priola, S. A., Bessen, R. A., Ernst, D., Dockter, J., Rall, G. F., Mucke, L., Chesebro, B., Oldstone, M. B. A. Neuron-specific expression of a hamster prion protein minigene in transgenic mice induces susceptibility to hamster scrapie agent Neuron  1995 15:1183-1191  DOI:10.1016/0896-6273(95)90105-1  PMID:7576660