Hemochromatosis/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Blood [r]: The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (i.e., blood vessels). Whole blood includes plasma and blood cells. ^[e]

• Human iron metabolism [r]: Mechanisms of ingestion, distribution, use and excretion of iron by the human body, as well as an introduction to disorders of iron metabolism ^[e]

Subtopics

• Duodenum [r]: The shortest and widest portion of the small intestine, which receives output from the stomach via the pylorus, and puts processed material into the jejunum ^[e]
• Crypt cell [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Enterocyte [r]: Cells lining the small intestine, which both secrete digestive enzymes and absorb nutrients ^[e]
• Hepcidin [r]: A peptide hormone, secreted by the liver and believed to act primarily in the duodenum, currently believed to be a major, if not the master, regulatory mechanism of human iron metabolism, and indeed in mammals ^[e]
• Ferroportin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Transferrin [r]: A protein that carries iron, absorbed in the gastrointestinal tracts, to the capillaies, and released into the bloodstream ^[e]

Other related topics

• Erythropoesis [r]: The creation, from megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cells, and life cycle of erythrocytes (i.e., red blood cells or RBCs) ^[e]
• Erythrocyte [r]: Blood cells that carry hemoglobin ^[e]
• Red blood cell [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heme [r]: Deep red, nonprotein, ferrous molecule that binds with proteins as a cofactor or prosthetic group to form the haemoproteins. ^[e]