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AGE at the time of injection has not been shown to influence the incubation period of peripherally injected scrapie in mice over 6 days old1, although a slight negative regression from birth to four months has been found for the intracerebral route2. We report here, marked incubation period changes of three scrapie agents given intraperitioneally when the mice were injected neonatally instead of as adults.
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OUTRAM, G., DICKINSON, A. & FRASER, H. Developmental Maturation of Susceptibility to Scrapie in Mice. Nature 241, 536–537 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241536a0
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