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Biological Correlates of Microwave
Published in Jitendra Behari, Radio Frequency and Microwave Effects on Biological Tissues, 2019
In investigations carried out by Cetkin et al. (2017) a total of 32 male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into three groups: control, sham and mobile phone speech (exposed, 2h/day) and stand by (12 h/day) groups. The speech and stand by groups were subjected to the exposed EMF for a total of 10 weeks. They reported no statistically significant difference between the serum iron and ferritin values of the rats in the speech and stand by groups than the control and sham groups (p > 0.05). The unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron capacity values of the rats in the speech and stand by groups were significantly lower in comparison to the control group (p < 0.01). They found that exposure to EMF created by mobile phones affected unsaturated iron-binding capacity and total iron-binding capacity negatively.
Nanoencapsulation of Iron for Nutraceuticals
Published in Bhupinder Singh, Minna Hakkarainen, Kamalinder K. Singh, NanoNutraceuticals, 2019
Naveen Shivanna, Hemanth Kumar Kandikattu, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Teenu Sharma, Farhath Khanum
Trauma is one of the most important pathologic causes for blood loss, besides several GI-related pathological disorders, such as GI carcinomas, ulcers, inflammatory diseases, and hemorrhoids. Aspirin intake further aggravates such loss of blood by GI tract. Indeed, demand for iron will increase in case of hemorrhages due to the loss of RBCs or blood. Celiac disease (sprue) is one of the diseases that could impair iron absorption. Therefore, adults identified with iron deficiency go for endoscopic procedures for identification of the source of bleeding. This type of anemia will be characterized by decreased amount of hemoglobin resulting in less magnitude of mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) owing to reduced size of RBCs. This condition is termed as hypochromic microcytic anemia. Total serum iron also gets diminished, whereas serum iron binding capacity will rather increase, with low transferrin saturation percent (5–10%). In individuals from high altitude regions, serum soluble transferrin receptors will be more expressed (Andrews, 1999; Clark, 2009).
Review of Nanoscale Spectroscopy in Medicine
Published in Sarhan M. Musa, Nanoscale Spectroscopy with Applications, 2018
Chintha C. Handapangoda, Saeid Nahavandi, Malin Premaratne
The diagnosis of Wilson disease requires analyses of copper in serum and liver biopsy specimens (Sunderman 1973). Measurements of copper in serum and urine are needed for the diagnosis of acute copper intoxication, which is a complication of renal hemodialysis, neonatal exchange transfusion, and ingestion of copper salts (Sunderman 1973). Copper level in serum is elevated in infections, hyperthyroidism, and leukemia. The effectiveness of antileukemic therapy is routinely monitored by observing serum copper and zinc levels using AAS (Berman 1975). Hypozincemia is an abnormality that is observed in a number of clinical situations such as liver disease, lung disease, acute myocardial infarction, chronic kidney disease with uremia, diseases with increased muscle catabolism, and pregnancy (Sunderman 1973). Diagnosis of acute lead poisoning requires the measurements of lead concentrations in whole blood. Atomic absorption spectrometry of lead in whole blood and urine has become a common analytical task in clinical laboratories due to concerns regarding environmental intoxication (Sunderman 1973). Measurements of serum iron and iron-binding capacity have become routine analyses for the diagnosis of iron deficiency and iron overload (Sunderman 1973).
Association between iron exposures and stroke in adults: Results from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey during 2007-2016 in United States
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2022
Jingang Xu, Guofeng Xu, Junkang Fang
On the other hand, no association was observed between serum iron concentrations and risk of stroke in the multivariate-adjusted model in our study, which was consistent with some previous studies (van der A et al. 2005). A population-based cohort study consisting of 11,471 Dutch postmenopausal women aged 49 and 70 years showed that serum iron was not significantly associated with stroke risk (van der A et al. 2005). One case–control study with the first-ever stroke cases (231 ischemic and 42 hemorrhagic) and matched double referents from the population-based Northern Sweden cohorts also showed no associations between the risk of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and plasma iron (Ekblom et al. 2007). Serum iron concentrations are markers of iron release into the plasma and utilization of iron incorporation mainly in hemoglobin. This might explain why the parameter was not associated with the risk of stroke.