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ReviewBiomedicines2025

Molecular Mechanisms of Iron Metabolism and Overload.

Aditi Tayal, Jasmeen Kaur, Payam Sadeghi, Robert W Maitta

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Review in Biomedicines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Aditi TayalUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-6209-8238
Jasmeen KaurUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Payam SadeghiUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Robert W MaittaUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5424-5519

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Iron represents an essential element required for normal physiologic processes throughout organ systems. A vast network of transporters is involved not only in uptake of this element but in processing, oxidation, and recycling to maintain it in a tight balance to avoid excess storage. This complex network of transporters, including heme and ferroportin, among many others, are responsible for facilitating inter-organ tissue iron exchange and availability, contributing to overall heme homeostasis. However, exposure to high levels of iron can overwhelm compensatory mechanisms that result in its accumulation and toxicity. This is the case of patients with genetic diseases such as hemoglobinopathies who suffer from chronic anemia and require, in most instances, a lifetime of red blood cell transfusions to overcome disease crises. Thus, in light of the extensive role of iron in the body, the aim of this review is to present important metabolic pathways involved in iron homeostasis across the cardiovascular, reproductive, hematopoietic, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, and central nervous systems while contrasting these against negative effects caused by iron excess.

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ferroportinhemehepcidiniron excessiron metabolismiron overloadmetabolismmolecular mechanismstransfusion

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PMID41007630
PMCPMC12467715

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