chiropractor(Noun) A health care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic, the hands on or hand-held instrumental movement of the bone structure of the body to improve the function of the joints and/or nervous system.
The values for serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), and transferrin saturation are used to see if a low amount of iron in the body is from iron deficiency anemia or another condition. The values are also used to see whether a high amount of iron is due to hemochromatosis or another condition.
Iron deficiency leads to anemia, a decrease in the oxygen carrying capacity of blood. However, too much iron in the body can be extremely toxic to tissues because it promotes the formation of free radicals. The majority of the body's iron is found in hemoglobin of developing and mature red blood cells.Of the remaining iron, a significant portion is stored in the liver, both in the hepatocytes, and in the Kupffer cells (also known as reticuloendothelial cells), a type of macrophage found in the liver. second signal depends upon the amount of iron in body stores. Iron absorption is stimulated if the level in body stores is low. These signals (and others) regulate iron absorption in the proximal duodenum, where iron is absorbed. An important player in this regulation is the recently discovered hormone hepcidin.