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Previous Volume 331:1725 December 22, 1994 Number 25

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Edited by Jeremy H. Brock, June W. Halliday, Martin J. Pippard, and Lawrie W. Powell. 485 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994. $79. ISBN 0-7020-1732-9.

The intricacies of biologic systems are unraveled in fits and starts. Rapid advances in knowledge create new models and paradigms that form the basis of subsequent investigation. Iron Metabolism in Health and Disease eloquently captures the current state of knowledge in this field.

The first chapter lays out the central role of iron in a multitude of redox reactions that make the element essential to all life on earth. The chapters that follow discuss the cell and molecular biology of the principal proteins of iron metabolism, transferrin and ferritin, along with a host of supporting characters. Later, the biology of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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