Background: Values for dietary iron bioavailability are required for setting dietary reference values. These are estimated from predictive algorithms, nonheme iron absorption from meals, and models of iron intake, serum ferritin concentration, and iron requirements.Objective: We developed a new interactive tool to predict dietary iron bioavailability.Design: Iron intake and serum ferritin, a qu...

objective high concentration of iron and other trace elements could restrict bacterial growth and modify their metabolic pattern as well. however, this study aimed to find out the influence of iron, chromium, cadmium and synergism or antagonism between these elements on the growth of a gram positive bacterium. materials and methods in a series of experiments, bucillus cereus was cultured in a n...

For two hours after the ingestion of a standard meal with an iron content of 3.45 mg there is a rise in iron concentration in the jejunal lumen. Initially this is in a high molecular weight form but there is a steady increase in the concentration of low molecular weight compounds. This is consistent with the gradual intraluminal transfer of iron from a mucopolysaccharide carrier to low molecula...

COMMENTARY Is increased tissue ferritin a risk factor for atherosclerosis and ischaemic heart disease? In 1981 Sullivan postulated a link between tissue iron stores and the risk of heart disease' because both the incidence of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and the serum concentration of ferritin are much lower in pre-menopausal women than in men of the same age, whereas in men and women over 45 ...

Changes in iron concentration in brain tissue are of interest in the study of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis [MPY13]. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is inherently sensitive to changes in tissue magnetic susceptibility, which can be used as a direct measure of iron concentration [Sch96]. Changes in tissue magnetic susceptibility result in phase shifts in ...

Dear Sir: We read with great interest the article by Patterson et al (1) published recently in the Journal. In the conclusion of their abstract, the authors purport to have shown that " in iron-deficient women of childbearing age, a high-iron diet produced smaller increases in SF [serum ferritin] than did iron supplementation but resulted in continued improvements in iron status during a 6-mo f...

The objective of this study was to estimate the amount of bioavailable iron (FeBIO) in the diet of Mexican children aged 12-59 mo through the application of algorithms that use dietary variables and analyze the association between estimated FeBIO and hemoglobin (Hb) concentration. Data were analyzed for 919 children aged 12-59 mo old who participated in a national probabilistic survey on nutrit...

For most organisms, iron is an essential nutrient that is both difficult to acquire from the environment and toxic at high concentration. Therefore, to avoid deprivation or over-abundance of iron, bacteria and eukaryotes have developed a tight regulatory system to keep the metal within a narrow concentration range. Recent work in the bacteria Escherichia coli and in Pseudomonas aeruginosa has d...

Enteric pathogens, such as enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O157:H7, encounter varying concentrations of iron during their life cycle. In the gastrointestinal tract, the amount of available free iron is limited because of absorption by host factors. EHEC and other enteric pathogens have developed sophisticated iron-responsive systems to utilize limited iron resources, and these systems are prim...

A simple flow injection analysis (FIA) method is described for the sequential determination of iron and copper. The detection method for iron and copper is based on their catalytic activities in the oxidation reaction of N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine (DPD) with hydrogen peroxide. The sequential determination of iron and copper can be carried out by injecting two sample plugs into the FIA syst...