mdwannabe
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What is the major pathway for excess Fe (iron) waste in males and females?
And how is it regulated? :-)
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male-gastrointestinal d(ulcer)
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| mdwannabe
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Nope. Menses do not occur in both sexes, and ulcer is pathological. see EXCESS loss, meaning phisiological.
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| mdwannabe
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The physiological waste of Iron goes through normal waste of Enterocytes, where as you remeber most Iron stays after absorbtion and binding to cytoplasmic ferritin.
The regulator of such process is Hepsidin, produced by the liver when its stores of hemosiderin are full, the Hepsidin is released to circulation and affects eneterocytes at bottom of crypts in sm. interstine, it downregulates the transposrters on the luminal surface of enterocyte.
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