Title : Iron redistribution as a therapeutic strategy for treating diseases of localized iron accumulation.

Pub. Date : 2010 Mar

PMID : 20393584






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1 Iron concentrations can rise to toxic levels in mitochondria of excitable cells, often leaving the cytosol iron-depleted, in some forms of neurodegeneration with brain accumulation (NBIA) or following mutations in genes associated with mitochondrial functions, such as ABCB7 in X-linked sideroblastic anemia with ataxia (XLSA/A) or the genes encoding frataxin in Friedreich"s ataxia (FRDA). Iron ATP binding cassette subfamily B member 7 Homo sapiens