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Inherited Disorders of Iron Overload

Dietary iron absorption and systemic iron traffic are tightly controlled by hepcidin, a liver-derived peptide hormone. Hepcidin inhibits iron entry into plasma by binding to and inactivating the iron exporter ferroportin in target cells, such as duodenal enterocytes and tissue macrophages. Hepcidin...

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Published in:Front Nutr
Main Author: Pantopoulos, Kostas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6215844/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30420953
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2018.00103
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