"Iron Overload" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An excessive accumulation of iron in the body due to a greater than normal absorption of iron from the gastrointestinal tract or from parenteral injection. This may arise from idiopathic hemochromatosis, excessive iron intake, chronic alcoholism, certain types of refractory anemia, or transfusional hemosiderosis. (From Churchill's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1989)
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D019190
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.452.565.500
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| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Iron Overload" by people in Profiles.
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Deuterated docosahexaenoic acid protects against oxidative stress and geographic atrophy-like retinal degeneration in a mouse model with iron overload. Aging Cell. 2022 04; 21(4):e13579.
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Canonical Wnt Signaling in the Pathology of Iron Overload-Induced Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Diseases. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2022; 2022:7163326.
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Renal iron accelerates the progression of diabetic nephropathy in the HFE gene knockout mouse model of iron overload. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 08 01; 317(2):F512-F517.
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Effectiveness of deferiprone in transfusion-independent beta-thalassemia/HbE patients. Hematology. 2011 Mar; 16(2):113-22.
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Iron overload manifesting as apparent exacerbation of hepatic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2006 May; 12(5):506-10.