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Effects of dietary copper deficiency on male offspring of heterozygous brindled mice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Joseph R. Prohaska
Joseph R. Prohaska
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
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Female C57BL mice heterozygous for the brindled gene were mated to normal males and fed on a purified diet low in copper throughout gestation and lactation with (+ Cu) or without (−Cu) Cu-supplemented drinking water. Male offspring of two genotypes (control, + /y and brindled, Mobr/y) were compared when 10–12 d old. Brindled mice from dams on the – Cu treatment were smaller and had lower packed cell volumes than brindled mice from dams on the + Cu treatment. The −Cu brindled mice were smaller than their littermate brothers (+/y) but had equivalent biochemical features consistent with severe Cu deficiency. Compared with control mice from dams on the +Cu treatment, caeruloplasmin (EC 1.16.3.1) activity was lower in offspring of all three other groups including Mobr/y mice who were not anaemic. Iron levels were similar in organs and bone marrow from all four groups of offspring. When dietary Cu is limiting in brindled mice a more severe Cu deficiency ensues. Thus, appropriate Cu nutriture is important to the management of Menkes' disease in humans, a genetic analogue of the brindled mouse.

Keywords

Copper deficiencyBrindled mouse
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 177 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1989

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