Iron homeostasis: Insights from genetics and animal models

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 208-217

  Andrews, Nancy C ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

IRON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0034572933     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35042073     Document Type: Review

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