ARTICLE | Clinical News
Proteus International preclinical data
October 17, 1994 7:00 AM UTC
Proteus' joint venture company, Pharmapro, tested tissue sections from 169 cattle brains that had been diagnosed by current methods as either infected (in 83 cases) or non-infected. Proteus' test detected all infected cases and there were no false results.
Proteus' test has the ability to detect PrPsc, the prion protein believed to cause BSE, in tissues from the liver, kidney and spleen, and blood. ...