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Iron Kinetics Quiz

Ferritin and Hemosiderin in Macrophages and Hepatocytes of Storage Compartment accounts for:

A. 10% Total Body Iron,
0.36g of Iron Content

16% Total Body Iron,
0.68g of Iron Content

C. 68% Total Body Iron,
0.36g of Iron Content

D. 18% Total Body Iron,
0.67g of Iron Content

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When the body has adequate stores of iron, the hepatocytes sense that and will increase the production of hepcidin.

Iron exported from the enterocyte into the blood is ferrous and must be converted to the ferric form for transport in the blood.

A. First Statement is True, Second Statement is False

B. Second Statement is True, First Statement is False

C. Both Statements are Correct

D. Both Statements are Incorrect



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