Lamb meat is regarded as an important source of highly bioavailable iron (heme iron) in the Iranians diet. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of traditional cooking methods on the iron changes in lamb meat. Four published experimental methods for the determination of heme iron were assessed analytically and statistically. Samples were selected from lambs' loin. Standard ...

Iron is an essential nutrient playing a central role in metabolism and also is an essential component in DNA synthesis and respiratory and oxidative metabolism which relate to the properties of unremitting proliferation and a more anaerobic metabolism that may contribute to a selective advantage of neoplastic cells over non neoplastic cells. Clinical correlations have been made linking cellular...

Iron biofortification of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a promising approach to combat iron deficiency (ID) in the millet-consuming communities of developing countries. To evaluate the potential of iron-biofortified millet to provide additional bioavailable iron compared with regular millet and post-harvest iron-fortified millet, an iron absorption study was conducted in 20 Beninese women...

background cardiovascular disease is the world´s leading cause of death and elevated serum iron and ferritin have been proposed as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (ami) in recent years. this study was done to determine the relationship between serum iron and ferritin with ami and its role on early coronary vessels disorder. material and methods in this cross-sectional study, total...

Recently, some evidence has shown that the failure of iron homeostasis may occur in critically ill patients and can lead to iron overload. Elevated ferritin levels as a body iron burden index in critically ill patients may be associated with depressed level of consciousness and greater mortality. However, the necessity of using iron-chelating agents in clinical situation is still unknown for th...

[1] The Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, is an ideal natural laboratory for studying the impact of atmospheric dry deposition of iron to the ocean surface. We have measured atmospheric iron deposition weekly for 18 months, and dissolved and total dissolvable iron concentrations in the stratified summer (August) and well-mixed winter (March) water column. Concentrations of dissolved and total di...

Purebred Duroc gilts were fed 0, 15, 30, or 60 ppm of supplemental copper with 100 or 200 ppm of supplemental iron throughout four reproductive cycles. Traits studied included: gestation, lactation, and weaning-to-estrus weight changes; total and live pigs farrowed; total and live pig birth weights and weaned weights at 3 weeks of age; and hemoglobin, hematocri t and plasma copper and iron of s...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of feeding protein-iron complex (PIC) on productive performance and indicators of iron metabolism, hematology parameters, antioxidant and immune status during first 35 days of a calf's life. Preparation of the complex involved enzymatic hydrolysis of milk casein (serine protease from Yarrowia lipolytica yeast). Iron chloride was then adde...

The hypotransferrinemic mouse (trf (hpx)) is a mutant strain exhibiting transferrin deficiency, marked anemia, hyperabsorption of iron, and elevated hepatic iron stores. We set out to investigate the relative roles of anemia and of transferrin in the malregulation of intestinal iron absorption in these animals. Transfusion of erythrocytes obtained from littermate controls increased hemoglobin l...