ferroportin

This hormone has been found to suppress intestinal absorption of iron through its binding to ferroportin.

Biology News Net 2010

This hormone has been found to suppress intestinal absorption of iron through its binding to ferroportin.

Biology News Net 2010

The researchers also looked at data on more than 800 women with breast cancer to see if they could find a link between ferroportin levels and long-term outcomes for cancer.

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Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina found that levels of ferroportin -- a protein that exports iron from cells -- are strikingly lower in breast tumors than in normal tissue.

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The lack of ferroportin results in a build-up of iron, which allows a tumor to grow and perhaps become more aggressive, Suzy Torti, an associate professor of biochemistry at Wake

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When the researchers restored ferroportin levels to normal in human breast tumors in mice, the tumors grew more slowly.

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This hormone has been found to suppress intestinal absorption of iron through its binding to ferroportin.

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This hormone has been found to suppress intestinal absorption of iron through its binding to ferroportin.

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"Because ferroportin can remove iron from the cell, when we put the protein back into the cell, the ferroportin removed the cancer's growth stimulus," said Torti.

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"Our findings suggest that ferroportin is a substantial influence on the behavior of the cancer," she said.

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