RGD Reference Report - Age-dependent amelioration of hypoplastic anemia in Ws/Ws rats with a small deletion at the kinase domain of c-kit. - Rat Genome Database

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Age-dependent amelioration of hypoplastic anemia in Ws/Ws rats with a small deletion at the kinase domain of c-kit.

Authors: Morimoto, M  Kasugai, T  Tei, H  Jippo-Kanemoto, T  Kanakura, Y  Kitamura, Y 
Citation: Morimoto M, etal., Blood. 1993 Dec 1;82(11):3315-20.
RGD ID: 12910751
Pubmed: PMID:7694680   (View Abstract at PubMed)

The white-spotting (Ws) locus of rats represents a 12-base deletion of the c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase. Homozygous Ws/Ws rats are deficient in melanocytes, mast cells, and erythrocytes. Although mice possessing two mutant alleles at the c-kit (W) locus, such as mice of W/Wv genotype, show severe anemia even in adult age, the anemia of Ws/Ws rats remarkably ameliorated with age. We investigated the mechanism of the age-dependent amelioration. Bone marrow cells of Ws/Ws rats did not form macroscopic colonies in the spleen of irradiated rats, and the concentration of burst-forming unit-erythroid in the marrow of Ws/Ws rats was comparable with that of +/+ rats. Therefore, the increase in morphologically identifiable erythroid precursors in the marrow of Ws/Ws rats was attributed to the increased concentration of colony-forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E). Furthermore, the increase in CFU-E appeared to result from the increased concentration of erythropoietin (EPO). Because injections of relatively low doses of EPO cured the slight anemia that remained in adult Ws/Ws rats, CFU-E and/or its immediate precursors of Ws/Ws rats appeared to be more sensitive to EPO than those of W/Wv mice, in which a huge dose of EPO was necessary to cure the anemia.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
aplastic anemia severityIMP 12910751; 12910751; 12910751 RGD 
aplastic anemia severityISOKit (Rattus norvegicus)12910751; 12910751 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Kit  (KIT proto-oncogene receptor tyrosine kinase)
KitWs  (KIT proto-oncogene receptor tyrosine kinase; mutant 1)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Kit  (KIT proto-oncogene receptor tyrosine kinase)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
KIT  (KIT proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase)

Strains
BN-KitWs  (NA)


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