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The hepatic peptide hormone hepcidin, which has recently been isolated from human plasma and urine, is thought to be a central regulator of iron homeostasis. We investigated the presence and cellular localisation of hepcidin in the liver and developed a non-invasive assay to analyse its regulation in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis (HH), chronic renal insufficiency (CRI), and renal anaemia (RA).
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Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Hasan_Kulaksiz@med.uni-heidelberg.de
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