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Disorders of iron metabolism.

Nancy C. Andrews
- 23 Dec 1999 - 
- Vol. 341, Iss: 26, pp 1986-1995
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Iron has the capacity to accept and donate electrons readily, interconverting between ferric (Fe2+) and ferrous (Fe3+) forms, which makes it a useful component of cytochromes, oxygen-binding molecules, and many enzymes.
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Iron has the capacity to accept and donate electrons readily, interconverting between ferric (Fe2+) and ferrous (Fe3+) forms. This capability makes it a useful component of cytochromes, oxygen-bind...

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Regulation of cellular iron metabolism: Iron-dependent degradation of IRP by SCFFBXL5 ubiquitin ligase.

TL;DR: Current understanding of the roles of SCFFBXL5‐mediated degradation of IRPs played in cellular iron metabolism is discussed and the abundance of FBXL5 is regulated by availability of iron ion in cells.
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Hepcidin: inflammation's iron curtain

H. McGrath, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2004 - 
TL;DR: Rheumatologists and their patients are the beneficiaries of a recently identified peptide, hepcidin, which appears to be the long-sought iron-regulatory hormone responsible for the anaemia of chronic disease and acts as a negative regulator of iron absorption.
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Expression of ferroportin in hemochromatosis liver.

TL;DR: The increase in ferroportin protein without an increase in mRNA is consistent with iron-mediated translational regulation through the 5'IRE in the mRNA.
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1,6-Dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3-pyridinecarboxylic acid and 4-hydroxy-2-methyl-3-pyridinecarboxylic acid as new possible chelating agents for iron and aluminium.

TL;DR: DQ716 has the required favourable properties to be a chelating agent for Fe and Al and is confirmed by chelation efficiency measurements performed in an octanol-aqueous solution in the presence of those ligands and metals.
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Adult liver disorders caused by inborn errors of metabolism: review and update.

TL;DR: The review will focus on Wilson disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, citrin deficiency, and HFE-associated hemochromatosis which are typically found in the adult population.
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A novel MHC class-I-like gene is mutated in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis

John N. Feder
- 01 Jan 1996 - 
TL;DR: Using linkage–disequilibrium and full haplotype analysis, a region more than 3 megabases telomeric of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that is identical–by–descent in 85% of patient chromosomes is identified, containing a gene related to the MHC class I family, termed HLA–H, containing two missense alterations.
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Cloning and characterization of a mammalian proton-coupled metal-ion transporter

TL;DR: A new metal-ion transporter in the rat, DCT1, which has an unusually broad substrate range that includes Fe2+, Zn2+, Mn2+, Co2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+ and Pb2+.
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Prevalence of Iron Deficiency in the United States

TL;DR: Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are still relatively common in toddlers, adolescent girls, and women of childbearing age and were more likely in those who are minority, low income, and multiparous.
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Microcytic anaemia mice have a mutation in Nramp2, a candidate iron transporter gene.

TL;DR: A positional cloning strategy is undertaken to identify the causative mutation in mice with microcytic anaemia, and it is suggested that the phenotype is a consequence of a missense mutation in Nramp2 (ref. 5), a previously identified gene of unknown function.
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