Iron is prioritized to red blood cells over the brain in phlebotomized anemic newborn lambs

Pediatric Research

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 922-928

  Zamora, Tara G ^a,b   Guiang, Sixto F ^b   Widness, John A ^c   Georgieff, Michael K ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; IRON BALANCE; IRON THERAPY; LAMB; LIVER; MUSCLE TISSUE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE MODEL; DOMESTIC SHEEP; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEMATOCRIT; LITTER SIZE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEMATOCRIT; IRON; LITTER SIZE; PHLEBOTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 84976417299     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2016.20     Document Type: Article

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