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| Resumo: | Anaemia is a frequent complication of chronic infectious diseases but the exact mechanisms by which it develops remain to be clarified. In the present work, we used a mouse model of mycobacterial infection to study molecular alterations of iron metabolism induced by infection. We show that four weeks after infection with Mycobacterium avium BALB/c mice exhibited a moderate anaemia, which was not accompanied by an increase on hepatic hepcidin mRNA expression. Instead, infected mice presented increased mRNA expression of ferroportin (Slc40a1), ceruloplasmin (Cp), hemopexin (Hpx), heme-oxygenase-1 (Hmox1) and lipocalin-2 (Lcn2). Both the anaemia and the mRNA expression changes of iron-related genes were largely absent in C.D2 mice which bear a functional allele of the Nramp1 gene. Data presented in this work suggest that anaemia due to a chronic mycobacterial infection may develop in the absence of elevated hepcidin expression, is influenced by Nramp1 and may involve lipocalin-2. |
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| Autores principais: | Rodrigues, Pedro |
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| Outros Autores: | Gomes, Sandro S.; Neves, João V.; Pereira, Sandra Gomes; Neves, Margarida Correia; Alves, Cláudio Nunes; Stolte, Jens; Sanchez, Mayka; Appelberg, Rui; Muckenthaler, Martina U.; Gomes, M. Salomé |
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| Assunto: | Mycobacteria Anaemia Ipocalin-2 NRAMP1 Hepcidin Lipocalin-2 |
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| Ano: | 2011 |
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| País: | Portugal |
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
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| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
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| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
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