Mechanism of iron toxicity

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 509, Issue , 2003, Pages 19-43

  Pietrangelo, Antonello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ANTIOXIDANT;

CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FIBROGENESIS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IRON BALANCE; IRON METABOLISM; IRON OVERLOAD; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; HUMANS; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON-REGULATORY PROTEINS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 0041808770     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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