Increased susceptibility to iron deficiency of Tmprss6-haploinsufficient mice

Blood

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 851-852

  Nai, Antonella ^a   Pagani, Alessia ^a   Silvestri, Laura ^a   Camaschella, Clara ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TMPRSS6; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; HEPCIDIN; IDB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 1; IRON; MATRIPTASE 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TFRC PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; IRON INTAKE; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION PROTEIN 1; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; LIVER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 77956276207     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-04-278655     Document Type: Letter

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