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Iron-enriched diet contributes to early onset of osteoporotic phenotype in a mo...
Simão, M.; Camacho, A.; Ostertag, A.; Cohen-Solal, M.; Pinto, I.; Porto, G.; Hang Korng, E.; Cancela, M.Osteoporosis is associated with chronic iron overload secondary to hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), but the causative mechanisms are incompletely understood. The main objective of this study was to investigate the role of dietary iron on osteoporosis, using as biological model the Hfe-KO mice, which have a systemic iron overload. We showed that these mice show an increased susceptibility for developing a bone l...
Date: 2018
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Origin: Repositório Científico da Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António (ULSSA)