Role of hepcidin in the development of anemia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Chronic disease anemia (CDA) diagnosed in many patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was described in the early 1970s. As earlier noted, iron metabolic disturbances in CDA are its diagnostic feature and the discovery of hepcidin, an iron-regulatory acute-phase protein, could largely clarify an ass...

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Main Authors: Elena Andreyevna Galushko, D A Belenky, E N Aleksandrova, L N Kashnikova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: IMA-PRESS LLC 2012-06-01
Series:Научно-практическая ревматология
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Online Access:https://rsp.mediar-press.net/rsp/article/view/841