Article
Erythropoietic protoporphyria in the house mouse. A recessive inherited ferrochelatase deficiency with anemia, photosensitivity, and liver disease.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Nov 1991
Tutois S, Montagutelli X, Da Silva V, Jouault H, Rouyer-Fessard P, Leroy-Viard K, Guénet J L, Nordmann Y, Beuzard Y, Deybach J C
Abstract excerpt
A viable autosomal recessive mutation (named fch, or ferrochelatase deficiency) causing jaundice and anemia in mice arose in a mutagenesis experiment using ethylnitrosourea. Homozygotes (fch/fch) display a hemolytic anemia, photosensitivity, cholestasis, and severe hepatic dysfunction. Protoporph...
Topics
- Anemia, Hemolytic
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Erythrocytes
- Globins
- Liver Diseases
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mutation
- Photosensitivity Disorders
- Porphyrias