Main 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.

Contents:

1. Hepcidin, bacterial infection, and iron overload Ron Acton and James Barton 2. The role of heparan sulfates in hepcidin regulation Paolo Arosio 3. hepcidin CDNa and human gene Mohamed Boumaiza 4. Sex hormones, growth factors and hepcidin Paresh Dandona 5. HFE gene polymorphisms and hereditary hemochromatosis Nikolaos Drakoulis 6. HEPCIDIN & IL-1beta Funaba Masayuki 7. Hepcidin-ferroportin axis Yelene Ginzburg 8. Cardiomyocyte hepcidin Samira Lakhal-Littleton 9. Adipocyte iron, leptin and hepcidin Donald A. McClain 10. Regulators of hepcidin expression Marie-Paule Roth and Helene Coppin 11. Splicing variant of hepcidin mRNA Katsunori Sasaki 12. Hepcidin and the bmp-smad pathway Laura Silvestri, Antonella Nai and Alessia Pagani 13. Hfe/Tfr2 null mice and hepcidin Nathan Subrumaniam