Role of melanotransferrin in iron metabolism: Studies using targeted gene disruption in vivo

Blood

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2599-2601

  Sekyere, Eric O ^b   Dunn, Louise L ^b   Rahmanto, Yohan Suryo ^b   Richardson, Des R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOTRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; HEME SYNTHESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRON METABOLISM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

EID: 33645528381     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-10-4174     Document Type: Article

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