Hepcidin regulation: ironing out the details
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Hepcidin regulation: ironing out the details.
Hepcidin is a peptide hormone secreted by the liver that plays a central role in the regulation of iron homeostasis. Increased hepcidin levels result in anemia while decreased expression is the causative feature in most primary iron overload diseases. Mutations in hemochromatosis type 2 (HFE2), which encodes the protein hemojuvelin (HJV), result in the absence of hepcidin and an early-onset for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci32701