Iron Metabolism: Hepcidin

Iron Metabolism: Hepcidin
ISBN-10
0128178434
ISBN-13
9780128178430
Series
Iron Metabolism
Category
Science
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2019-02-22
Publisher
Academic Press
Author
Gerald Litwack

Description

Iron Metabolism, Volume 110, the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series first published in 1943, covers the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology and enzyme mechanisms, with this release focusing on topics relating to hepcidin, bacterial infection, and iron overload, the role of heparan sulfates in hepcidin regulation, hepcidin CDNA and human gene sex hormones, growth factors and hepcidin, HFE gene polymorphisms and hereditary hemochromatosis, hepcidin and il-1beta, hepcidin-ferroportin axis, cardiomyocyte hepcidin, adipocyte iron, leptin and hepcidin, regulators of hepcidin expression, and much more. Focuses on the newest aspects of hormone action in connection with diseases Lays the groundwork for the focus of new chemotherapeutic targets Represents reviews on emerging areas in hormone action, cellular regulators and signaling pathways

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