Serum transferrin receptor concentrations correlate more strongly with red cell indices than with iron parameters in iron-deficient adolescents

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 213-216

  Choi, Jong Weon ^a,b  

^a Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Inha University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL MATURATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON DEPLETION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; METAL BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RETICULOCYTE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IRON; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0344305721     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074231     Document Type: Article

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