Beyond soluble transferrin receptor: Old challenges and new horizons

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 799-810

  Harms, Kristian ^a   Kaiser, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

anaemia; erythropoiesis; hepcidin; inflammation; iron metabolism disorders; transferrin receptor

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEPCIDIN; IRON; SOLUBLE TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CD71 ANTIGEN; FERRITIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON METABOLISM; RETICULOCYTE HEMOGLOBIN CONTENT; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; METABOLISM;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; FERRITINS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84945945809     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2015.09.003     Document Type: Review

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