The efficacy of iron therapy in nutritional anaemia, which has been shown to be of such common occurrence in infants and adults (Mackay"6; Faber6; Davidson et al'; Fullerton') is apparently dependent on the administration of large doses of iron if given orally (Heath"; Witts"). In this connection it is interesting to recall that the use of large doses was first advocated in 1832 by Blaud'. Only...

Iron is bound to transferrin in the plasma. A specific receptor on the cell surface binds transferrin and internalizes transferrin and the iron in clathrin-coated pits. These invaginate to form vesicles which release iron to the cytoplasm. Inorganic iron can be transported by an alternative pathway from iron citrate, utilizing a cell surface integrin and a cytoplasmic protein mobilferrin. This ...

background obese children are at the risk of micronutrient deficiency especially iron deficiency. given the importance of iron deficiency in this age group and considering the existing discrepancies, present study was performed with the aim of evaluating iron deficiency in obese children. material and method this study was conducted, in the form of a case-control study, on 100 children aged bet...

iron (in zero-valent and oxide forms) is used to remove numerous organic and inorganic contaminants in environment. however, there are few reports, especially in nano scale, on the remediation of heavy metals contaminated soils using zero-valent iron in the literature. in this study, the effect of iron on the availability of heavy metals was evaluated in a calcareous soil spiked with cadmium, z...

THE METABOLIC RESPONSE TO IRON DEFICIENCY IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE. Minoo Shakoury-Elizeh, Olga Protchenko, Alvin Berger, James Cox, Kenneth Gable, Teresa M. Dunn, William A. Prinz, Martin Bard, and Caroline C. Philpott Liver Diseases Branch and Laboratory of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, NIDDK, NIH, Metabolon, Inc., 800 Capitola Drive, Suite 1, Durham, NC Metabolomics Core Research Facilit...