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Science 22 May 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3621, pp. 1015 - 1016
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3621.1015
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Iron Absorption: The Effect of an Iron-Deficient Diet

Simeon Pollack 1, Richard M. Kaufman 1, and William H. Crosby 1

1 Department of Hematology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington 12, D. C.

A diet deficient in iron causes a rapid, marked increase in iron absorption in rats. The increased absorption occurs in the absence of a significant change in iron stores as judged by the effect of an equivalent change in stores produced by phlebotomy, and in the absence of increased erythropoietic activity as judged by the rate of removal of iron-59 from the plasma.


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