Cover Image

Inorganic biochemistry of iron metabolism : from molecular mechanisms to clinical consequences /

Show other versions (2)
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crichton, Robert R.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Boelaert, Johan R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; New York : Wiley, [2001]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Iron > metabolism.
Iron Metabolism Disorders.
Metabolic Diseases > physiopathology.
Metalloproteins > metabolism.
Online Access:Inorganic biochemistry of iron metabolism (Online).
Table of Contents:
  • Solution chemistry of iron in biological media
  • The importance of iron for biological systems
  • Microbial iron uptake
  • Iron uptake by plants and yeast
  • Cellular iron uptake in mammals
  • Intracellular iron storage and biomineralization
  • Intracellular iron metabolism and cellular iron homeostasis
  • Iron absorption in mammals with particular reference to man
  • Pathophysiology of iron deficiency and iron overload in man
  • Iron and oxidative stress
  • Iron and infection
  • Interaction between iron and other metals