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SUBMITTER: Krieg L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3236123 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krieg Lara L Milstein Oren O Krebs Philippe P Xia Yu Y Beutler Bruce B Du Xin X
Blood 20111005 24
Iron is an essential component of heme and hemoglobin, and therefore restriction of iron availability directly limits erythropoiesis. In the present study, we report a defect in iron absorption that results in iron-deficiency anemia, as revealed by an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced mouse phenotype called sublytic. Homozygous sublytic mice develop hypochromic microcytic anemia with reduced osmotic fragility of RBCs. The sublytic phenotype stems from impaired gastrointestinal iron absorption caused ...[more]