Article
The murine mutation, lethal milk, results in production of zinc-deficient milk.
The Journal of nutrition - 1 Jun 1992
Ackland M L, Mercer J F
Abstract excerpt
Normal or mutant pups that nurse dams homozygous for the lethal milk (lm) mutation die as a result of zinc deficiency. Previous determinations of the zinc concentration of the mutant milk have been conflicting. This work demonstrates that the amount of 65Zn recovered in the organs of pups followi...
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Lactation
- Maternal-Fetal Exchange
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Milk
- Mutation
- Pregnancy
- Spectrophotometry, Atomic
- Stomach
- Tissue Distribution
- Zinc
- Zinc Radioisotopes