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Brain in human nutrition and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease risk (vCJD): detection of brain in retail liver sausages using cholesterol and neuron specific enolase (NSE) as markers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

E. Lücker ,
S. Horlacher  and
E. Eigenbrodt
E. Lücker*
Affiliation:
Institute of Food Hygiene, University of Leipzig, An der Tierkliniken 35, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
S. Horlacher
Affiliation:
Institute of Veterinary Food Science, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Frankfurter St 92, 35392 Giessen, Germany
E. Eigenbrodt
Affiliation:
Institute of Biochemistry and Endocrinology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Frankfurter St 100, 35392 Giessen, Germany
*
*Corresponding author: Dr E. Lücker, fax +49 341 97 3 82 49, email [email protected]
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 86 , Issue S1 , August 2001 , pp. S115 - S119
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