Article
Anemia and mast cell depletion in mutant rats that are homozygous at "white spotting (Ws)" locus.
Blood - 15 Oct 1991
Niwa Y, Kasugai T, Ohno K, Morimoto M, Yamazaki M, Dohmae K, Nishimune Y, Kondo K, Kitamura Y
Abstract excerpt
Mice possessing two mutant alleles at the W or Sl locus are anemic and deficient in mast cells. These mouse mutants have black eyes and white hair. Because homozygous mutant rats at the newly found white spotting (Ws) locus were also black-eyed whites, the numbers of erythrocytes and mast cells w...
Topics
- Anemia
- Animals
- Cell Count
- Female
- Homozygote
- Male
- Mast Cells
- Mastocytosis
- Mice
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred BN
- Rats, Mutant Strains
- Skin
- Skin Transplantation