Effects of vitamin E deficiency on hepat
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Bruce R. Bacon; Robert S. Britton; Rosemary O'Neill
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In both hereditary hemochromatosis (HHC) and in the various forms of secondary hemochromatosis, there is a pathological expansion of total body iron stores, due mainly to an inappropriate increase in absorption of dietary iron (1-3). The liver is the major recipient of this excess absorbed iron, and