Talk:Human iron metabolism

message: Seeking illustration[s] for the IRE-BP portion of this article Joewright 16:33, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope I'll draw one when I'll have a time (not before November) ilia 14:16, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is a lot in the article about the input of iron to the body but hardly anything about the output. Iron is an element and does not disappear into thin air! Since it does not accumulate indefinitely in the body either, there must be some excretion path.
The article mentions menstrual blood, pregnancy and lactation; but what about the adult male, or female after menopause?
The article says:"humans have no physiologic regulatory mechanism for excreting iron". I suppose that just means that there is some excretion mechanism, but that it is not regulated. What is that mechanism?
David Olivier (talk) 16:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As you imagined there's no regulated mechanism of iron excretion.  Anyway, iron can be lost in many ways. As you said hair loss and fingernails account for some iron loss, but from a quantitative point of view epithelial exfoliation (skin and gut) and blood losses are far more relevant. It's really hard - if not impossible - to say how much iron is lost through hair loss and fingernail. Tleonardi (talk) 18:24, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What are the paths for excretion?

message: http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/full/112/2/219 - Nancy Andrews giving a historical overview of the recent developments. JFW | T@lk 21:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical review 

message: * You can use: :File:Schematic overview of the main elements considered to participate in mammalian iron metabolism.jpg --CopperKettle 03:57, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Scheme

message: Thank you very much to all the medical Wikipedians who contributed to this article. It is extremely helpful, well-written and informative, and I personally appreciate this much-needed information being made available on my favorite site. Keep up the great work. jengod (talk) 17:02, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: JCI review JFW | T@lk 19:57, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron regulation by hepcidin 

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message: doi:10.1111/bjh.15403 JFW | T@lk 06:36, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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replies: text: Human iron metabolism →  – Please place your rationale for the proposed move here. Immanuelle 💗 (please tag me) 00:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
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