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SEMINARS IN HEMATOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 351-357Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2009.06.003
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- NIH NIDDK/NHLBI [IK08DK074284-01]
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Anemia of inflammation (AI) is a complex multi-organ response to inflammatory disorders. Because AI can result from many infectious and non-infectious inflammatory diseases, multiple mechanisms may contribute to its pathogenesis, including iron restriction, direct erythropoietic Suppression, shortened red blood cell survival, and frank hemolysis. Animal models have been helpful in the study of the mechanisms of AI and its potential treatments, but each model reflects distinct aspects of this heterogeneous syndrome. It is therefore important to study a variety of models of AI. This review focuses on the use of infectious and noninfectious mouse models of inflammation that have been shown to manifest anemia. We review many of the models reported in the literature or developed in our laboratory, and discuss their respective merits and drawbacks. Semin Hematol 46:351-357. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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