• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.613-618
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• 2015

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Iron deficiency in early life is associated with developmental problems, which may persist until later in life. The question of whether iron repletion after developmental iron deficiency could restore iron homeostasis is not well characterized. In the present study, we investigated the changes of iron transporters after iron depletion during the gestational-neonatal period and iron repletion during the post-weaning period. MATERIALS/METHODS: Pregnant rats were provided iron-deficient (< 6 ppm Fe) or control (36 ppm Fe) diets from gestational day 2. At weaning, pups from iron-deficient dams were fed either iron-deficient (ID group) or control (IDR group) diets for 4 week. Pups from control dams were continued to be fed with the control diet throughout the study period (CON). RESULTS: Compared to the CON, ID rats had significantly lower hemoglobin and hematocrits in the blood and significantly lower tissue iron in the liver and spleen. Hepatic hepcidin and BMP6 mRNA levels were also strongly down-regulated in the ID group. Developmental iron deficiency significantly increased iron transporters divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1) and ferroportin (FPN) in the duodenum, but decreased DMT1 in the liver. Dietary iron repletion restored the levels of hemoglobin and hematocrit to a normal range, but the tissue iron levels and hepatic hepcidin mRNA levels were significantly lower than those in the CON group. Both FPN and DMT1 protein levels in the liver and in the duodenum were not different between the IDR and the CON. By contrast, DMT1 in the spleen was significantly lower in the IDR, compared to the CON. The splenic FPN was also decreased in the IDR more than in the CON, although the difference did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrate that iron transporter proteins in the duodenum, liver and spleen are differentially regulated during developmental iron deficiency. Also, post-weaning iron repletion efficiently restores iron transporters in the duodenum and the liver but not in the spleen, which suggests that early-life iron deficiency may cause long term abnormalities in iron recycling from the spleen.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.339-343
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• 1995

철이온이 Arabidopsis thaliana의 mesophyll protoplasts 배양에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 mesophyll protoplasts를 분리한 후 변형시킨 IMH 배지에 서로 다른 농도의 Fe-EDTA를 조성하여 배양하는 동안 나타나는 현상들을 관찰하였다. 세포분열률, 미세캘러스의 생장 및 첫번째 세포분열의 시기 등이 Fe-EDTA 농도에 따라 현저히 달라짐을 확인하였다. 대조군에서는 전혀 세포분열이 관찰되지 않았으며, 0.02 mM 미만의 저농도에서는 세포분열률이 낮았다. 0.5-1 mM에서 가장 빠른 세포분열과 높은 분열률을 보였으며 미세캘러스의 형성과 생장도 가장 빨랐다. 낮은 농도(0-0.25 mM)의 Fe-EDTA가 첨가된 배지에서는 농도의 증가와 비례하여 분열률이 높아졌고, 첫 세포분열의 시기와 미세캘러스의 생장 또한 농도의 증가에 비례하여 촉진되는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 이러한 현상은 1 mM에서최고치를 보인 후 그 이상의 농도에서는 농도의 배가에 따라 효율이 현저히 감소되는 것으로 관찰되었다. 본 연구에서 엽육세포 원형질체의 세포분열 및 미세캘러스의 생장이 최대로 나타났던 0.5-1 mM 철이온 농도는 현재 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 배지들에 비해 5-10배의 높은 농도이다.