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Ferritins

"Ferritins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Iron-containing proteins that are widely distributed in animals, plants, and microorganisms. Their major function is to store IRON in a nontoxic bioavailable form. Each ferritin molecule consists of ferric iron in a hollow protein shell (APOFERRITINS) made of 24 subunits of various sequences depending on the species and tissue types.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ferritins" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Ferritins" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 303 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2022
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