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...
Hemopoiesis (hematopoiesis) is the formation of balanced amounts of different blood elements. The number of daily formed blood elements must equalize the amount of daily destroyed elements. Hemoppoiesis includes erythropoiesis, thrombopoiesis, granulopoiesis, monopoiesis, and...
