Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is a diagnostic procedure that allows the physician to diagnose and treat problems in the upper gastrointestinal (UGI) tract. The doctor uses a long, flexible, lighted tube called an endoscope. The endoscope is guided through the patient's mouth and throat, then through the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (first part of the small intestine). The doctor can examine the inside of these organs and detect abnormalities.
Onions are transported in wide-meshed jute fabric or plastic bags, crates, boxes, cartons, baskets or fruit crates. Small-meshed bags are unsuitable for transport due to their low permeability to air.
Iron cannot be transported around the body's circulation system as free iron, since it would be susceptible to chelation by siderophores, or may precipitate as iron(III) oxide, or may form iron(II). Therefore, a specific transport protein is required, called transferrin. (In fact, a whole class of transferrin-like proteins is involved in iron transport.) Transferrin is a medium-sized protein with a relative molecular mass of about 80 000.