The summer wind, came blowin in-from across the sea. It lingered there, so warm and fair-to walk with me. All summer long, we sang a song-and strolled on golden sand. Two sweethearts, and the summer wind. Like painted kites, those days and nights-went flyin by.
iron metabolism, a series of processes involved in the entry of iron into the body and its absorption, transport, storage, use in the formation of hemoglobin and other iron compounds, and eventual excretion.nce in the blood, iron cycles between the plasma and the reticuloendothelial or erythropoietic system. For hemoglobin synthesis, plasma iron is delivered to the normoblast, where it remains up to 4 months, trapped in the hemoglobin molecules of a mature red cell. Senescent red cells then deteriorate and break down.
Another important effect of iron in heme metabolism is its role in the accumulation of uro-and hepta-carboxyl porphyrins in the liver known to occur in porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT). 14 Most patients with PCT have a moderate increase of liver iron, which seems to play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease.