Two radiochemical (Irosorb 59 and Res-O-Mat Fc), a mechanized (DSA 560) and several manual colorimetric procedures (test combination of Roche, Merck and Haury) for the determination of the total iron binding capacity were compared with the transferrin-binding capacity (immunoprecipitation). Whereas all methods show a satisfactory correlation with the transferrin concentration, most colorimetric...

background: among the many complications reported for cirrhosis, iron deficiency anemia (ida) has attracted much attention. this type of anemia, in contrast to other types of anemia, is easy to treat prophylactically, but if left untreated can lead to a poor quality of life. the aim of this study was to estimate the hemoglobin and serum iron levels among patients with liver cirrhosis for the ea...

Introduction and Aim: Diabetic nephropathy is the common cause of final stage kidney disease. Studies on trace elements oxidant-antioxidant status in diabetes mellitus are required for establishing mechanisms involved pathogenesis diabetic complications, also to establish biomarkers addition conventional markers. The present study aimed assess correlate blood levels copper, iron, ceruloplasmin,...

Iron chlorosis is a very common disorder of crops grown in calcareous soils. It is well known that the total iron concentration in leaves is not a valid index for iron nutritional status of crops and that the total iron concentration in chlorotic leaves are often similar or even greater than in the green leaves. In this study, we compare three extraction methods for iron deficiency diagnosis in...

backgrounds and aims: thyroid hormones have a crucial physiological role to maintain balance of metabolism of body. thyroid hormones have an important role in metabolism and proliferation of blood cells. thyroid gland also has a vital influence on erythropoiesis by induction of erythropoietin secretion and proliferation of erythroid progenitors. in the present study, it was tried to evaluate th...

BACKGROUND Total body iron calculated from serum ferritin and soluble transferrin receptor concentrations allows for the evaluation of the full range of iron status. OBJECTIVE We described the distribution of total body iron and the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) on the basis of total body iron in US pregnant women. DESIGN We examined data from the National Health and Nutrition Examinat...

I read the recent publication on evaluation of iron deficiency anemia via total antioxidant capacity with great interest [1]. It concluded that, “increased oxidative stress may play a role in the pathogenesis of iron deficiency anemia” and that ,“the automated assay is a reliable and easily applied method for measurement of serum total antioxidant capacity in iron deficiency anemia” [1]. There ...