Iron Metabolism: Hepcidin

Provides cutting-edge reviews of vitamins and hormones of interest to endocrinologists, biochemists, nutritionists, pharmacologists, cell biologists and molecular biologists

Gerald Litwack (Edited by)

9780128178423

Hardback, published 26 February 2019

280 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

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.

1. Hepcidin, bacterial infection, and iron overloadRon Acton and James Barton2. The role of heparan sulfates in hepcidin regulationPaolo Arosio3. hepcidin CDNa and human geneMohamed Boumaiza4. Sex hormones, growth factors and hepcidinParesh Dandona5. HFE gene polymorphisms and hereditary hemochromatosisNikolaos Drakoulis6. HEPCIDIN & IL-1betaFunaba Masayuki7. Hepcidin-ferroportin axisYelene Ginzburg8. Cardiomyocyte hepcidinSamira Lakhal-Littleton9. Adipocyte iron, leptin and hepcidinDonald A. McClain10. Regulators of hepcidin expressionMarie-Paule Roth and Helene Coppin11. Splicing variant of hepcidin mRNAKatsunori Sasaki12. Hepcidin and the bmp-smad pathwayLaura Silvestri, Antonella Nai and Alessia Pagani13. Hfe/Tfr2 null mice and hepcidinNathan Subrumaniam

Subject Areas: Biochemistry [PSB], Endocrinology [MJG]