Iron metabolism: Physiology and pathophy
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Prem Ponka
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Iron is indispensible for life, essential for such processes as oxygen transport, electron transfer, and DNA synthesis. Because of iron's virtual insolubility and potential toxicity, specialized mechanism and molecules for its acquisition, transport, and storage in a soluble, nontoxic form have evol