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The brindled mutant mouse is a useful model to study Menkes kinky-hair syndrome. The metabolic dysfunctions in both human and rodent are related to insufficient levels of bioavailable copper. Recently, copper supplementation therapy has been able both to prevent the appearance of various neuropathological changes and to prolong the life of these mutant mice. The optimum conditions for supplementation have been shown to be two intraperitoneal injections on postnatal days 7 and 10. The present study reports on the brain copper concentrations before, during and after the intraperitoneal copper therapy. The results demonstrate that postnatal days 7 and 10 correspond to two important epochs in copper homoeostasis. The supplementation therapy seems to provide sufficient bioavailable copper to respond to the needs of the animal at these crucial time points. The results are discussed in terms of their importance to the human copper disorder.

The effect of copper supplementation on the concentration of copper in the brain of the brindled mouse