Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
- Volume 3 Issue 3
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- Pages.248-250
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- 1998
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- 2287-1098(pISSN)
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- 2287-8602(eISSN)
Effects of Transferrin on Enhancing Biological Availability of Iron
- Park, In-wook (Korea Food Research Institute) ;
- Kim, Yun-Ji (Korea Food Research Institute) ;
- Seong, i-Seung (Korea Food Research Institute)
- Published : 1998.09.01
Abstract
In this study, transferrin which is an iron-carrying glycoprotein in plasma was evaluted for its iron binding capacities(TIBC), iron solubilizing abilities, and enhancing effect of biological availbability of iron. Results of TIBC showed that 1 mg of transferrin could blind 1.28