Sheep twin chimaeras with admixtures of red cell amino acid and potassium transport phenotypes |
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Authors: | E. M. Tucker J. D. Young |
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Affiliation: | AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK;Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong |
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Abstract: | A pair of sheep twins each had two populations of red cells. Population 1 was positive for antigens Aa, Ma and Mb, was low-potassium type, possessed an amino acid transport system and was lysine-negative phenotype. Population 2 was negative for antigens Aa, and Mb, was high-potassium type, lacked the amino acid transport system and was lysine-positive phenotype. Population 2 disappeared from both sheep over a period of 8 years. |
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Keywords: | sheep chimaeras amino acid transport potassium transport |
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