Recent advances in the understanding of inherited sideroblastic anaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-38

  Camaschella, Clara ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Haem; Inherited siderobastic anaemia; Iron regulatory proteins; Iron sulphur clusters; Mitochondrial iron

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PYRIDOXINE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE MUTATION; HEME SYNTHESIS; HEREDITARY SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; IRON METABOLISM; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON TRANSPORT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA WITH ATAXIA; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; X LINKED SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

5-AMINOLEVULINATE SYNTHETASE; ANEMIA, SIDEROBLASTIC; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; PYRIDOXINE; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 51249119361     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07290.x     Document Type: Review

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