Iron

Iron homeostasis in host and gut bacteria – a complex interrelationship

Gut Microbiota, Iron /

Iron deficiency is the most frequent nutritional deficiency in the world with an estimated 1.4 billion people affected. The usual way to fight iron deficiency is iron fortification, but this approach is not always effective and can have undesirable side effects including an increase in the growth and virulence of gut bacterial pathogens responsible for […]

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Parkinson’s Disease: Alterations in Iron and Redox Biology as a Key to Unlock Therapeutic Strategies

Detox, Iron, Pre-PD /

 This dysfunction could then drive alterations in iron trafficking that attempt to rescue energy deficits such as the increased iron uptake to provide iron for key electron transport proteins. Considering the increased iron-loading in PD brains, therapies utilizing limited iron chelation have shown success. Greater therapeutic advancements should be possible once the exact molecular pathways

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