The major purpose of the present investigation was to study the effects of different concentrations of residual chlorine on serum iron related parameters in rats. Feeding male rats with water containing 80 ppm of residual chlorine daily for 5 days reduced serum levels of ceruloplasmin, copper, iron and hemoglobin by approximately 27%,23%,6% and 4%, respectively. Higher reductions in serum ...

Abstract Background Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is one of the most common leading global health problems, which could cause extreme fatigue, chest pain, headache, and even neurodevelopment deterioration in children. Traditionally, assessing serum ferritin, transferrin, iron are tools to diagnose IDA. However, a high false-positive rate these conventional biomarkers might be observed due inflam...

a total number of 124 women of childbearing age attending a family planning clinic in teheran were investigated for the effects of contraceptive steroids and the intra-terine device on their hemoglobin concentration, packed cell volume, serum iron and serum tibc. a total of 42 women were used as control group of 42 women who were fitted with an intra-uterine device, 17 were studied for changes ...

Concentration of iron in plasma, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), and transferrin saturation are often determined by standard spectrophotometric methods, but iron concentration may be quantified by immunoprecipitation or, electrochemically, by controlled-potential coulometry. Because these iron assays do not all measure the same form(s) of iron, we studied subjects in various states of iron ...

Background. Studies have reported that obesity has an adverse effect on iron metabolism. Obesity is characterized by chronic, low-grade, systemic inflammation and anemia of chronic disease with elevated serum ferritin and decreased level of serum iron, transferrin saturation, and hemoglobin. Therefore, we examined the association of body mass index with hemoglobin concentration and iron paramet...

Oxidative damage is known to cause deleterious effects on cellular function leading to a number of disease conditions. Involvement of oxygen radical has been suggested in many clinical conditions including Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The present investigation describes the lipid profile, trace element profile, SOD, catalase activity and lipid peroxidation in CHD patients in the age group betw...