• Goats naturally devoid of PrPC are resistant to scrapie 

      Salvesen, Øyvind; Espenes, Arild; Reiten, Malin Rokseth; Vuong, Tram Thu; Malachin, Giulia; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Andréoletti, Olivier; Olsaker, Ingrid; Benestad, Sylvie Lafond; Tranulis, Michael A.; Ersdal, Cecilie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Prion diseases are progressive and fatal, neurodegenerative disorders described in humans and animals. According to the “protein-only” hypothesis, the normal host-encoded prion protein (PrPC) is converted into a pathological ...
    • Goats naturally devoid of PrPC are resistant to scrapie 

      Salvesen, Øyvind; Espenes, Arild; Reiten, Malin Rokseth; Vuong, Tram Thu; Malachin, Giulia; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Andréoletti, Olivier; Olsaker, Ingrid; Benestad, Sylvie Lafond; Tranulis, Michael A.; Ersdal, Cecilie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Prion diseases are progressive and fatal, neurodegenerative disorders described in humans and animals. According to the "protein-only" hypothesis, the normal host-encoded prion protein (PrPC) is converted into a pathological ...
    • Immunohistochemical expression of β-catenin, Ki67, CD3 and CD18 in canine colorectal adenomas and adenocarcinomas 

      Herstad, Kristin Marie Valand; Gunnes, Gjermund; Rørtveit, Runa; Kolbjørnsen, Øyvor; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Skancke, Ellen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
    • No evidence of uptake or propagation of reindeer CWD prions in environmentally exposed sheep 

      Harpaz, Erez; Salvesen, Øyvind; Rauset, Geir Rune; Aqsa, Mahmood; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Ytrehus, Bjørnar; Benestad, Sylvie L.; Tranulis, Michael A.; Espenes, Arild; Ersdal, Cecilie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of cervids first reported in North America in the 1960s. In Europe, CWD was first diagnosed in 2016 in a wild reindeer in Norway. Detection of two more cases in ...
    • Novel type of chronic wasting disease detected in moose (Alces alces), Norway 

      Pirisinu, Laura; Tran, Linh Dinh Thoai; Chiappini, Barbara; Vanni, Ilaria; Di Bari, Michele A.; Vaccari, Gabriele; Vikøren, Turid; Madslien, Knut; Våge, Jørn; Spraker, Terry; Mitchell, Gordon; Balachandran, Aru; Baron, Thierry; Casalone, Cristina; Rolandsen, Christer Moe; Røed, Knut; Agrimi, Umberto; Nonno, Romolo; Benestad, Sylvie Lafond (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)