The Control of Iron Absorption by the Gastrointestinal Mucosal Cell

AUTOR(ES)

Sheehan, Richard G.

RESUMO

Gastrointestinal mucosal factors controlling rates of iron absorption were studied utilizing an in vivo closed duodenal loop technique. Cellular distribution of newly absorbed radioiron was identified by molecular sieve and iron-exchange chromatography of the mucosal cell supernate. In the normal animal, iron rapidly appeared in ferritin, and this fraction accounted for greater than 90% of mucosal supernatant radioactivity after 60 min absorption time. The nonferritin radioiron appeared to be unbound iron salts. In the presence of increased iron absorption induced by iron depletion or hemolysis, the major difference from the normal distribution pattern was an increase in the proportion and quantity of the free iron salts. Incorporation of newly absorbed iron into ferritin did not correlate with the rate of iron absorption. No evidence was found for a specific soluble iron-chelating molecule within the mucosal cell. The nonheme iron content of the mucosal supernates from iron-deficient and hemolyzing animals were significantly lower than in the normal animal.

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