Iron Overload Syndrome in the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis): Microscopical Lesions and Comparison with Other Rhinoceros Species

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-549

  Olias, P ^a   Mundhenk, L ^a   Bothe, M ^a   Ochs, A ^b   Gruber, A D ^a   Klopfleisch, R ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Zoologischer Garten Berlin AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Haemochromatosis; Hepcidin; Iron; Rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL DEATH; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; DICEROS BICORNIS; ENDOCRINE GLAND; EXOTIC SPECIES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON STORAGE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCEROS UNICORNIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTESTINE, SMALL; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NECROSIS; PERISSODACTYLA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; DICEROS BICORNIS; RHINOCEROS; RHINOCEROS UNICORNIS;

EID: 84868609815     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: 15323129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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