Other prion diseases include scrapie in sheep; chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, in cattle. (sciencedaily.com)
The authors show that a panel of sheep scrapie prions transmit to several of these mouse models with efficiency comparable to that of cattle BSE. (natureasia.com)
Moreover, mice infected with scrapie progressed more quickly to disease. (sciencemag.org)