In adults, the amount of iron lost from the body is relatively small. Men lose about 0.6 mg/day, largely in the stools. Women have a variable, larger loss averaging twice this value because of...
Heme consists of a ringlike organic compound known as porphyrin and attached to an iron atom, It is the iron atom that reversibly binds oxygen as the blood travels between the lungs & the...
Hemoglobin consists of Heme (It is an iron-porphyrin compound composed of Porphyrins and iron), and Globin (protein part or apoprotein), The transport of O2 is based on a physical interaction between molecular O2 and...
