Orchestrated regulation of iron trafficking proteins in the kidney during iron overload facilitates systemic iron retention.

The exact route of iron through the kidney and its regulation during iron overload are not completely elucidated. Under physiologic conditions, non-transferrin and transferrin bound iron passes the glomerular filter and is reabsorbed through kidney epithelial cells, so that hardly any iron is found...

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Main Authors: Avital Weiss, Lior Spektor, Lyora A Cohen, Lena Lifshitz, Inbar Magid Gold, De-Liang Zhang, Marianna Truman-Rosentsvit, Yael Leichtmann-Bardoogo, Abraham Nyska, Sefi Addadi, Tracey A Rouault, Esther G Meyron-Holtz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6188744?pdf=render