Article
Fetal compensation of the hemolytic anemia in mice homozygous for the normoblastosis (nb) mutation.
Blood - 15 Oct 1992
Peters L L, Birkenmeier C S, Barker J E
Abstract excerpt
The mouse autosomal recessive mutation nb causes a deficiency of erythroid ankyrin and generates a life-threatening hemolytic anemia in adult mice; however, at birth, nb/nb mice appear to be robust and show no pallor. In our study, the time of disease onset was sought by comparison of nb/nb and +/? mice both in utero and postnatally. Erythroid ankyrin messenger RNA (mRNA) is expressed in fetal erythroid...
Topics
- Aging
- Anemia, Hemolytic
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Ankyrins
- Erythrocyte Count
- Erythrocytes
- Erythroid Precursor Cells
- Fetus
- Gene Expression
- Homozygote
- Iron
