Hepcidin, a putative mediator of anemia of inflammation, is a type II acute-phase protein

Blood

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2461-2463

  Nemeth, Elizabeta ^b   Valore, Erika V ^b   Territo, Mary ^b   Schiller, Gary ^b   Lichtenstein, Alan ^b   Ganz, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HEPCIDIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; IRON;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON STORAGE; LIVER CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; URINE;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANEMIA; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FERRITINS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0038662619     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-10-3235     Document Type: Article

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