| a collaborative canadian-united kingdom evaluation of an immunohistochemistry protocol to diagnose bovine spongiform encephalopathy. | collaboration was established in 2001 to evaluate a commercially available immunohistochemistry assay kit for the detection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse) disease-associated prion protein in formic acid-treated formalin-fixed samples of bovine brain. the kit protocol was evaluated at the national centre for foreign animal diseases (winnipeg, canada) and the veterinary laboratories agency (weybridge, u.k.). the u.k. laboratory provided paraffin-embedded blocks of brainstem (medulla obl ... | 2008 | 18599859 |