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Carnitine deficiency in OCTN2-/- newborn mice leads to a severe gut and immune phenotype with widespread atrophy, apoptosis and a pro-inflammatory response.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Sonne Srinivas, Shekhawat Prem S, Matern Dietrich, Ganapathy Vadivel, Ignatowicz Leszek
Abstract excerpt
We have investigated the gross, microscopic and molecular effects of carnitine deficiency in the neonatal gut using a mouse model with a loss-of-function mutation in the OCTN2 (SLC22A5) carnitine transporter. The tissue carnitine content of neonatal homozygous (OCTN2(-/-)) mouse small intestine w...
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