Screen LibraryIron deficiency and overload：from basic biology to clinical medicine
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Humana Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Nutrition and health |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-462-9 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 371 p.): ill. (some col.), ports. |
| ISBN: |
9781597454629 (electronic bk.) 1597454621 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | Q58 |
| CLC: |
Q58 R591.1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 system of the central nervous system: lessons from iron deficiency and overloading pathologies -- The effects of brain iron deficiency on cognitive and behavioral aspects -- Stress, immunology, and cytokines -- MRI of brain iron and neurodegenerative disease: a potential biomarker -- Alzheimer's 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 and women's health. |