The placenta: The forgotten essential organ of iron transport

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 421-431

  Cao, Chang ^a   Fleming, Mark D ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal development; Iron; Metabolism; Placenta; Regulation

Indexed keywords

NONHEME IRON PROTEIN; HEPCIDIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; DEFICIENCY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; HEPCIDINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IRON; KINETICS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TRANSFERRIN; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84979052921     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuw009     Document Type: Article

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