Iron Physiology and Pathophysiology in Humans

Iron Physiology and Pathophysiology in Humans edited by Gregory J. Anderson, Gordon D. McLaren.

Iron Physiology and Pathophysiology in Humans provides health professionals in many areas of research and practice with the most up-to-date and well-referenced volume on the importance of iron as a nutrient and its role in health and disease.  This important new volume is the benchmark in the comple...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Anderson, Gregory J. (Editor), McLaren, Gordon D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Nutrition and Health
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Clinical nutrition.
Nutrition   .
Gastroenterology .
Hepatology.
Food—Biotechnology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Table of Contents:
  • Proteins of Iron Homeostasis
  • Cellular Iron Physiology
  • Regulation of Cellular Iron Metabolism in Mammalian Cells
  • Concentrating, Storing and Detoxifying Iron: The Ferritins and Hemosiderin
  • Iron Nutrition
  • Intestinal Iron Absorption
  • Plasma Iron and Iron Delivery to the Tissues
  • Iron Salvage Pathways
  • Molecular Regulation of Systemic Iron Metabolism
  • Erythroid Iron Metabolism
  • Iron and the Reticuloendothelial System
  • Iron and the Immune System
  • Iron Deficiency
  • The Liabilities of Iron Deficiency
  • The Anemia of Inflammation and Chronic Disease
  • Disorders of Red Cell Production and the Iron-Loading Anemias
  • The Pathology of Hepatic Iron Overload
  • Hepatic Pathobiology of Iron Overload
  • HFE-Associated Hereditary Hemochromatosis
  • Non-HFE Hemochromatosis
  • Miscellaneous Iron-Related Disorders
  • Iron and Liver Disease
  • Neuropathology and Iron: Central Nervous System Iron Homeostasis
  • Iron Metabolism in Cancer and Infection
  • Estimation of Body Iron Stores
  • Genetic Testing for Disorders of Iron Homeostasis
  • The Properties of Therapeutically Useful Iron Chelators
  • Clinical Use of Iron Chelators
  • Mammalian Models of Iron Homeostasis
  • Yeast Iron Metabolism
  • Zebrafish Models of Heme Synthesis and Iron Metabolism.

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