Macrophages function as a ferritin iron
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Moshe J. Leimberg; Eugenia Prus; Abraham M. Konijn; Eitan Fibach
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Iron is essential for the survival as well as the proliferation and maturation of developing erythroid precursors (EP) into hemoglobinβcontaining red blood cells. The transferrinβtransferrin receptor pathway is the main route for erythroid iron uptake. Using a twoβphase culture system,