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This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by BEUTLER, E. Articles by HOFSTRA, D. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by BEUTLER, E. Articles by HOFSTRA, D. Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  Blood, 1960, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 370-375. © 1960 American Society of Hematology, Inc. Autocannibalism: The Etiology of Nerve-Resection Anemia ERNEST BEUTLER 1 and DIANA HOFSTRA 1 1 Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, operated by The University of Chicago for the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and the Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 1. The finding of Hollán that severe anemia follows nerve resection in rats has been confirmed. 2. By the use of total-body labeling with radioiron, it has been demonstrated that this anemia is due to blood loss. 3. The blood lost by the nerve-sectioned rat is found in the stools, but autopsy reveals no source of gastrointestinal bleeding. 4. Anemia occurs only in animals with excoriation of the denervated foot. Anemia may be precipitated by withdrawing food for 48 hours. Hollán has found that amputation of the denervated limb prevents onset of the anemia. 5. It is concluded that nerve-resection anemia in the rat is due to autocannibalism of the denervated foot. Submitted on June 1, 1959 Accepted on August 19, 1959 CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

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