The ontogeny of liver copper metabolism
The ontogeny of liver copper metabolism in the guinea pig: Clues to the etiology of Wilson's disease
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Surjit K. S. Srai; Andrew K. Burroughs; Bernard Wood; Owen Epstein
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Article
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1986
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The normal human neonate has a copper profile indistinguishable from Wilson's disease, and we have previously postulated that this disease is caused by genetic failure to switch from the fetal to adult mode of copper metabolism. This study validates the developing guinea pig as a suitable animal in