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Article: Scientists at University of Genoa discuss research in iron overload.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 14, 2009
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"Biosusceptometry is a non-invasive procedure for determination of iron overload in a human body; it is essentially an assessment of the diamagnetic (water) and paramagnetic (iron) properties of tissues. We measured in vivo iron overload in the liver region of 12 rats by a room temperature susceptometer," investigators in Genoa, Italy report (see also Iron Overload).
"The rats had been injected with sub-toxic doses of iron dextran. A quantitative relationship has been observed between the measurements and the number of treatments. The assessment of iron overload requires evaluating the magnetic signal corresponding to the same rat ideally without the overload. ...