ILOs:
- Discuss absorption and transport of Iron from GIT
- Describe utilisation, storage and recycling of Iron in the human body
- Discuss regulation of iron metabolism in human body
- Discuss about the causes and consequences of ‘Hereditary Haemochromatosis’
- Why do we need iron?
- How many grams of iron do we have in our body, total and split into the different cells?
- How is iron stored in the cells?
- Outline some diseases that change serum ferritin
- Outline the process of plasma iron transport
- What is the process of iron homeostasis?
- Outline the process of iron absorption
- Diagram of iron uptake by enterocytes
- Outline the homeostasis of iron in the reticuloendothelial system, absorption and release
- What is the process of iron recycling and the role of transferrin?
- How is iron taken up via transferrin in erythroblasts to form haem?
- What is haem?
Disorders of iron metabolism
- What do the RBCs look like in iron deficiency anaemia?