Iron Deficiency and Overload From Basic Biology to Clinical Medicine /
Iron deficiency is ever-present among all populations throughout the world irrespective of race, culture, or ethnic background. Even with the latest advances in medicine, improved nutrition, and the ready availability of cheap oral iron, there is still no satisfactory explanation for the widespread...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ :
Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Nutrition and Health
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-462-9 |
Table of Contents:
- The cellular physiology of iron
- Regulation of iron absorption and distribution
- The role of hepcidin in iron homeostasis
- Iron as nutrient: Strategies for iron acquisition and usage by pathogenic microorganisms
- Iron as a drug and drug-drug interactions
- Iron Deficiency and Excess in the brain: Implications for Cognitive Impairment and Neurodegeneration
- Brain iron deposition in aging and disease: Role of HO-1
- Iron Deficiency and Neuropharmacology
- Peripheral effects of Iron Deficiency
- Iron Metabolism in neurons of the motor systems of the central nervous system: Lessons from Iron Deficiency and Overloading pathologies
- Learning. Memory and Cognitive functioning
- Stress, Immunology and Cytokines
- MRI of brain iron and Neurodegenerative diseases: A Potential Biomarker
- Alzheimers dementia
- Inherited disorders of brain iron homeostasis
- Iron and Heart Disease: A Review of the epidemiologic data
- Global concept of iron deficiency
- Nutritional Iron deficiency in early childhood
- Iron in Womens Health
- Appendix I: Current normal values for blood level of iron constituents
- Appendix II: Food sources of iron.