A sideways glance: Take it or leave it? The role of lactoferrin in iron sequestration and delivery within the body

Genes and Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-162

  Scarino, Maria Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; DNA; FERROUS SULFATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LACTOFERRIN; LACTOFERRIN RECEPTOR; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 2; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BREAST FEEDING; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME INHIBITION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INFANT NUTRITION; IRON ABSORPTION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON METABOLISM; IRON TRANSPORT; MILK; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 38149101772     PISSN: 15558932     EISSN: 18653499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12263-007-0054-1     Document Type: Note

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