Getting to the "Heart" of Cardiac Disease by Decreasing Mitochondrial Iron.

Chang, Hsiang-Chun; Shapiro, Jason S; Ardehali, Hossein · Circ Res · 2016

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Abstract

Iron chelation rather than supplementation would be beneficial to patients with heart diseases. More effort should be devoted to the development of iron chelators that could target mitochondrial iron.

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