BACKGROUND Low serum ferritin levels signify low iron stores and this could predispose to iron deficiency anemia. OBJECTIVE To determine the rate and predictors of low serum ferritin levels during the puerperium in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria. STUDY DESIGN A hospital-based prospective longitudinal study involving parturient women who delivered singleton fetuses at term. Venous blood samples we...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate causal association of serum ferritin with pre-term labour. Materials and Methods: This is a case-control study done on one hundred and twenty women from July 2005 to June 2007 in the department of obstetrics and gynecology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and Mother and Child Health Training Institute (MCHTI), Azimpur, Dh...

The aim of this study is to identify the biochemical mechanism of phosphine toxicity and resistance, using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism. To date, the precise mode of phosphine action is unclear. In this report, we demonstrate the following dose-dependent actions of phosphine, in vitro: (1) reduction of ferric iron (Fe3+) to ferrous iron (Fe2+), (2) release of iron from horse ferri...

BACKGROUND Heart failure resulting from myocardial iron deposition is the most important cause of death in β-thalassemia major (TM) patients. Cardiac T2*magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), echocardiography, and serum ferritin level serve as diagnostic methods for detecting myocardial iron overload. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between the above-mentioned methods. METHODS...

Background and Aim: Blood samples are used for the diagnosis of many diseases. Serum ferritin level is known to be a marker of anemia and iron overload disorders. However, blood collection is an invasive method. Saliva, as a bio-fluid, contains a va-riety of important components that are successfully used for assessment of body health. The use of saliva samples for ferritin evaluation can be re...

important degenerative disease of brain.1,2 Several theories have been raised for Alzheimer disease including genetic deficiencies, slowly-progressive viral diseases, neutrophilic factors deficiencies, amyloid, free radicals, mitochondrial deficiencies and glutamate poisoning.3,4 One important phenomenon in these diseases is changes observed in copper and iron homeostasis.5,6 Since iron serum l...

background: a close relationship has been reported between level of serum iron and ischemic heart diseases which is either brought about through direct effect of serum iron on myocardial cells or as an indirect result of elevated serum lipid profile. a widespread use of iron supplements has been observed due to the high prevalence of iron deficiency anemia. yet an elevated serum lipid is strong...

The iron-protein ferritin has been purified from mycelium, sporangiophores, and spores of the fungus Phycomyces blakesleeanus. It has a protein-to-iron ratio of 5, a sedimentation coefficient of 55S, a buoyant density in CsCl of 1.82 g/cm(3), and the characteristic morphology of ferritin in the electron microscope. Apoferritin prepared from Phycomyces ferritin has a sedimentation coefficient of...

Abstract Objective Cardiac dysfunction is a major cause of death in patients with beta thalassemia. In these patients, repeated blood transfusion, ineffective erythropoiesis and increased gastrointestinal iron absorption lead to iron overload in the body and this induced heart failure. Left ventricular ejection fraction was measured in major beta thalassemia (β-Th) patients to detect the rela...

results overall, 1252 patients with morbid obesity were included in the study. the mean age of participants was 39.77 ± 10.84 years (ranged 10 to 70 years) and 80.3% of them were female. the mean body weight was 126.75 ± 21.58 kg and the mean bmi was also 46.99 ± 5.87 kg/m2. in result, 9.8% were anemic according to the low value of hemoglobin level, 46.6% had ferritin lower than the normal rang...