Fetal copper uptake and a homolog (Atp7b) of the Wilson's disease gene in rats

Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 225-231

  Muramatsu, Youji ^a,b   Yamada, Takahisa ^a   Moralejo, Daniel H ^a   Suzuki, Yasuo ^a   Matsumoto, Kozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Keiwa College   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; MENKES SYNDROME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WILSON DISEASE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; COPPER; FEMALE; FETUS; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; INBREEDING; LIVER; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UTERUS;

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