| Literature DB >> 25209728 |
John B Porter1, Patrick B Walter, Lynne D Neumayr, Patricia Evans, Sukhvinder Bansal, Maciej Garbowski, Marcela G Weyhmiller, Paul R Harmatz, John C Wood, Jeffery L Miller, Colleen Byrnes, Guenter Weiss, Markus Seifert, Regine Grosse, Dagmar Grabowski, Angelica Schmidt, Roland Fischer, Peter Nielsen, Charlotte Niemeyer, Elliott Vichinsky.
Abstract
In transfusional iron overload, extra-hepatic iron distribution differs, depending on the underlying condition. Relative mechanisms of plasma non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI) generation may account for these differences. Markers of iron metabolism (plasma NTBI, labile iron, hepcidin, transferrin, monocyte SLC40A1 [ferroportin]), erythropoiesis (growth differentiation factor 15, soluble transferrin receptor) and tissue hypoxia (erythropoietin) were compared in patients with Thalassaemia Major (TM), Sickle Cell Disease and Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia (DBA), with matched transfusion histories. The most striking differences between these conditions were relationships of NTBI to erythropoietic markers, leading us to propose three mechanisms of NTBI generation: iron overload (all), ineffective erythropoiesis (predominantly TM) and low transferrin-iron utilization (DBA).Entities:
Keywords: NTBI; erythropoiesis; hepcidin; inflammation; iron overload; non-transferrin bound iron
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25209728 PMCID: PMC4577015 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.13081
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Haematol ISSN: 0007-1048 Impact factor: 6.998