Iron Absorption and Excretion in Aregenerative Anaemia

Schiffer, Lewis M.; Brann, I.; Ep, Cronkite; Reizenstein, Peter

doi:10.1159/000209113

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“…Support for such a compensatory mechanism comes from previous clinical and experimental studies. In transfused iron-loaded patients with aplastic anaemia, iron absorption is not generally increased and is inversely related to the number of previous transfusions (Schiffer et al, 1966). In iron-loaded anaemic haemodialysis patients (in whom the cause of anaemia is relative erythropoietin deficiency) iron absorption was lower than control subjects; when anaemia was corrected with erythropoietin, iron absorption was further decreased, due to a decrease in mucosal uptake (Hughes et al, 1992).…”

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Iron metabolism in transgenic mice with hypoplastic anaemia due to incomplete deficiency of erythropoietin

Raja¹,

Maxwell

Ratcliffe

et al. 1997

Br J Haematol

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Summary.Iron overload is a serious complication of many forms of anaemia, arising in part from mechanisms associated with compensatory increases in erythropoiesis. To investigate other mechanisms by which anaemia itself may perturb iron metabolism, without the confounding effects of compensatory erythropoiesis, we studied transgenic mice with a partially disabling insertion in the erythropoietin gene, which manifested as incomplete erythropoietin deficiency.Mice were studied aged 7-8 weeks. Haemoglobin concentrations were 6 . 6 Ϯ 0 . 8 g/dl in mice homozygous for the modified erythropoietin gene, 12 . 9 Ϯ 2 . 2 g/dl in heterozygous mice and 14 . 1 Ϯ 1 . 0 g/dl in controls. Homozygous mice showed significant hepatic iron loading (2-fold increase in liver non-haem iron, compared with heterozygous mice and normal controls, with iron staining principally in the periportal hepatocytes). Absorption studies using 59 Fe showed increased uptake from the lumen of an in vivo isolated duodenal segment in homozygous mice, although at this point in time overall transfer of radioiron to the circulation and other tissues (mucosal transfer) was not different from controls. These observations demonstrate that anaemia can lead to hepatic iron loading even in the absence of increased erythropoiesis, and are consistent with the possibility that anaemic hypoxia can enhance mucosal iron uptake by the duodenal enterocyte.

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