Anti-PrP antibodies block PrPSc replication in prion-infected cell cultures by accelerating PrPC degradation.

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manuscript received October 15, 2003; revised manuscript received December 15, 2003; accepted December 16, 2003. We thanks P. Rondard, O Bischof, J.-L. Laplanche and J.-P. Pin for their fruitful discussions. we are grateful to S. barrère for her assistance in the statistical analysis of the data and H. McMahon for her assistance in reading the manuscript