"Iron Chelating Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Organic chemicals that form two or more coordination links with an iron ion. Once coordination has occurred, the complex formed is called a chelate. The iron-binding porphyrin group of hemoglobin is an example of a metal chelate found in biological systems.
| Descriptor ID |
D007502
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.519.914.500.410 D27.720.832.500.410
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| Concept/Terms |
Iron Chelating Agents- Iron Chelating Agents
- Agents, Iron Chelating
- Chelating Agents, Iron
- Iron Chelates
- Chelates, Iron
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Iron Chelating Agents" by people in Profiles.
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Consequences and costs of noncompliance with iron chelation therapy in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia: a literature review. Transfusion. 2007 Oct; 47(10):1919-29.
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Preventing stroke among children with sickle cell anemia: an analysis of strategies that involve transcranial Doppler testing and chronic transfusion. Pediatrics. 2007 Oct; 120(4):e1107-16.
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Cost effectiveness of once-daily oral chelation therapy with deferasirox versus infusional deferoxamine in transfusion-dependent thalassaemia patients: US healthcare system perspective. Pharmacoeconomics. 2007; 25(4):329-42.