Structure, function and clinical significance of transferrin receptors

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-10

  Feelders, Richard A ^a,b   Kuiper Kramer, Ellen P A ^c   Van Eijk, Henk G ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Sophia Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Serum) transferin receptor; Anaemia of chronic disease; Ferritin; Iron deficiency; Iron homeostasis

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ERYTHROPOIESIS; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; IRON TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032977840     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.001     Document Type: Review

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