Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Although iron is an essential nutrient, ferroptosis (cell death) occurs in response to excess iron. Iron-induced lipid peroxidation damages to cell membranes and leads to cell death. Menstruation, on the other hand, is a periodic expulsion of blood and detached endometrium (menstrual blood). Some of the endometrium remains after menstruation, exposed to high concentrations of blood-derived iron, however re-proliferates and undergoes decidualization, an essential differentiation for embryo implantation.
Author: Susumu Tanaka
Institutions: University of Nagasaki, Nagasaki University
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405257248