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- See also changes related to Hemochromatosis, or pages that link to Hemochromatosis or to this page or whose text contains "Hemochromatosis".
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]
- 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]