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Pro-hepcidin: expression and cell specific localisation in the liver and its regulation in hereditary haemochromatosis, chronic renal insufficiency, and renal anaemia
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- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016Serum pro-hepcidin: measuring active hepcidin, or a non-functional precursor?Show More
Dear Editor
We read with great interest the recent paper “Pro-hepcidin: expression and cell specific localisation in the liver and its regulation in hereditary haemochromatosis”.[1]
We have two observations. Firstly it was shown that pro-hepcidin and hepcidin were co-localised within the liver and in Hep-G cells. However it was not possible, using serum ELISA, to identify the C terminus of hepcidin (th...
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