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Cultures were explanted from brains of normal hamsters and hamsters with scrapie. A significantly higher percentage of cells derived from infected hamster brains showed capping with rhodamine-labeled Concanavalin A.
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Rutter, G., Asher, D.M., Rohwer, R.G. et al. Increased concanavalin A capping in cells from brains of scrapie-infected hamsters. Archives of Virology 68, 129–133 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314442
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