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Ether lipid deficiency does not cause neutropenia or leukopenia in mice and men
Fabian Dorninger1, Christoph Wiesinger1, Nancy E Braverman2
1Department of Pathobiology of the Nervous System, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Cell Metabolism
|May 9, 2015
Abstract:
In this Letter, Dorninger et al. show that the deficiency in ether lipid biosynthesis alone is not sufficient to induce neutropenia or leukopenia, as has been suggested by a previous report using an inducible knockout mouse model of ether lipid deficiency.

