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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2025

Iron and the immune system.

Joe N Frost, Hal Drakesmith

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. The Immune System as a Biosensor of Health and Athletic Performance.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2026
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  13. Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joe N FrostImmunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5946-6062
Hal DrakesmithMRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. alexander.drakesmith@imm.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8503-6103

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Iron is a cofactor for hundreds of enzymes and biochemical processes that support cellular metabolism across the kingdoms of life. Because of this, the host and pathogen compete for iron as a vital resource. Moreover, research has shown that iron acquisition and iron trafficking have substantial effects on the immune system. This is especially important because iron-related disorders - both deficiency and overload - are common worldwide. In this Review, we describe how immune cells acquire and use iron, which branches of the immune system are most affected by iron and how changes in iron availability can affect infectious diseases, autoinflammatory disorders and antitumour immunity. We also discuss key unanswered questions and potential therapeutic opportunities to manipulate immunity by controlling iron trafficking.

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