background: prenatal care is performed in order to diagnose high risk cases. researchers have shown the significant relationship between high serum ferritin levels and preterm delivery. preterm labors are one of the major risk factors in prediction of preterm delivery. hence we performed this study in order to determine the frequency distribution of serum ferritin level and the relationship bet...

background: ferritin is an iron storage protein, which plays a key role in iron metabolism. measurement of ferritin level in serum is one of the most useful indicators of iron status and also a sensitive measurement of iron deficiency. monoclonal antibodies may be useful as a tool in various aspects of ferritin investigations. in this paper, the production of a murine monoclonal antibody (mab) ...

Ferritin is a cytosolic molecule comprised of subunits that self-assemble into a nanocage capable of containing up to 4500 iron atoms. Iron stored within ferritin can be mobilized for use within cells or exported from cells. Expression of ferroportin (Fpn) results in export of cytosolic iron and ferritin degradation. Fpn-mediated iron loss from ferritin occurs in the cytosol and precedes ferrit...

Examination of the mechanism of intracellular iron recovery from lysosomally-degraded ferritin in vivo has been complicated by the continuous flux of cellular iron through ferritin molecules. Here we incubated human fibroblasts with cationic ferritin, a derivative of horse spleen ferritin, as a technique for delivering immunologically distinct ferritin molecules directly to lysosomes. Using thi...

Two physicochemically and metabolically separate pools of ferritin, namely cytosolic ferritin and lipid-associated ferritin, are present in the livers of guinea pigs. In this paper we establish that the iron content of cytosolic ferritin is dependent on and linearly related to ascorbic acid concentration, whereas changes in concentration of this vitamin do not affect the iron content of lipid-a...

In this work, we aimed to evaluate the levels of ferritin enriched in H subunits (H-ferritin) and ferritin enriched in L subunits (L-ferritin) and the cells expressing these two molecules in the lymph node (LN) biopsies obtained from adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) patients, and the possible correlation among these data and the severity of the disease. Ten patients with AOSD underwent LN bio...

Ferritin-iron has been shown to be as bioavailable as ferrous sulfate in humans. Thus, biofortification to breed crops with high ferritin content is a promising strategy to alleviate the global iron deficiency problem. Although ferritin is present in all food crops, its concentration varies between species and varieties. Therefore, a successful ferritin biofortification strategy requires a meth...

1. The properties of ferritin in serum have been compared with those of ferritin from a number of tissues including blood cells. On anion-exchange chromatography with DEAE-Sephadex, the behaviour of human heart ferritin is different from that of liver, kidney or spleen ferritin. Reticulocyte ferritin appears to have similar characteristics to heart ferritin. 2. Serum ferritin from normal subjec...

The synthetic polysaccharide iron complex (PIC) molecule has been suggested as a 'biomimic', i.e. a counterpart, to the naturally occurring biological molecule ferritin with respect to its magnetic properties based on the identification of ferrihydrite as the major mineral in both. Magnetization measurements were used to investigate the magnetic properties of PIC in relation to those of ferriti...

In mammal circulation, various ferritin-binding proteins (FBPs) are thought to be involved in the clearance of circulating ferritin after complex formation with it. However, horse FBPs are known to cause inhibitory effects on ferritin immunoassay due to the concealment of the ferritin molecule to anti-ferritin antibodies used in the ferritin immunoassay. These inhibitory effects are eliminated ...