Brain Iron Deposition
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چکیده
The brain uses iron for many essential processes (1-4). The extent of iron utilization is heavily dependent on local functional requirements, leading to significant variations in tissue iron concentrations throughout the brain (5-7). This was graphically illustrated nearly a century ago in the first colour illustrations of the differential distribution of iron throughout the brain architecture, obtained by Spatz (8) using Perls staining (9).
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