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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Xiaofei Gao
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-63836 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Lee Hsiang-Ying HY Gao Xiaofei X Barrasa M Inmaculada MI Li Hu H Elmes Russell R RR Peters Luanne L LL Lodish Harvey F HF
Nature 20150511 7557
Many acute and chronic anaemias, including haemolysis, sepsis and genetic bone marrow failure diseases such as Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, are not treatable with erythropoietin (Epo), because the colony-forming unit erythroid progenitors (CFU-Es) that respond to Epo are either too few in number or are not sensitive enough to Epo to maintain sufficient red blood cell production. Treatment of these anaemias requires a drug that acts at an earlier stage of red cell formation and enhances the formatio ...[more]