Lack of evidence for rickets in the osteopetrotic rat mutation, toothless.

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A common, but paradoxic, feature among osteopetrotic human infants is the presence of rickets. This disorder of mineralization is manifested radiographically and histologically by increased growth plate cartilage and hypertrophic cell zone thickness and excess metaphyseal osteoid and biochemically by decreased serum calcium and phosphorus concentrations. Rickets has also been reported in two osteopetrotic animal...

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