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Age-dependent amelioration of hypoplastic anemia in Ws/Ws rats with a small deletion at the kinase domain of c-kit.
Blood - 1 Dec 1993
Morimoto M, Kasugai T, Tei H, Jippo-Kanemoto T, Kanakura Y, Kitamura Y
Abstract excerpt
The white-spotting (Ws) locus of rats represents a 12-base deletion of the c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase. Homozygous Ws/Ws rats are deficient in melanocytes, mast cells, and erythrocytes. Although mice possessing two mutant alleles at the c-kit (W) locus, such as mice of W/Wv genotype, show severe anemia even in adult age, the anemia of Ws/Ws rats remarkably ameliorated with age. We investigated the mechanism of...
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