Heme, an essential nutrient from dietary proteins, critically impacts diverse physiological and pathological processes

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1080-1102

  Hooda, Jagmohan ^a   Shah, Ajit ^a   Zhang, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer progression; Coronary heart disease; Diabetes; Heme intake; Hemoproteins; Iron; Red meat

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; BILIRUBIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOCHROME P450 4A11; CYTOGLOBIN; EPIREGULIN; FERROPORTIN 1; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HEME OXYGENASE 2; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 15; MYOGLOBIN; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 2; NITROSO DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTON COUPLED FOLATE TRANSPORTER; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT INHIBITORY FACTOR 1;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLON CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; STOMACH SECRETION;

CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIETARY PROTEINS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MEAT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASES; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84896094804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6031080     Document Type: Review

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