Bone metabolism in the osteopetrotic rat mutation microphthalmia blanc.

doi:10.1016/8756-3282(95)00080-w

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Bone metabolism in the osteopetrotic rat mutation microphthalmia blanc.

Bone - 1 May 1995

Cielinski M J, Marks S C

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We have examined parameters of bone metabolism in a new mutation, microphthalmia blanc (mib), in the rat exhibiting a skeletal sclerosis at birth that improves with age. There were no significant differences in the rate of bone formation during the first postnatal month except a temporary reducti...

Topics

Adenosine Triphosphatases
Animals
Blotting, Northern
Bone Development
Bone Resorption
Carbonic Anhydrases
Disease Models, Animal
Female
Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
Male
Mice
Mice, Mutant Strains
Microphthalmos
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Osteoclasts
Osteopetrosis
RNA, Messenger

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