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Influence of Sleep Deprivation on Iron Metabolism

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AMONG the basic factors which have a bearing on iron metabolism and its serum level certain attention has been paid during the past two decades to the influence of biological rhythms1 and various stressing stimuli2. In conjunction with this we decided to make use of an experimental set-up which involves the prolonged and complete upset of the basic biological rhythm of the alternation of wakefulness and sleep—that is, sleep deprivation. This work was stimulated in particular by the finding of an extreme drop of plasma iron (revealed in preliminary experiments) during the 120th hour of vigilance in four experimental subjects3.

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  1. Institute of Human Nutrition, Budějovická 800, Prague, 4—Krč

    E. KUHN & V. BRODAN

  2. Laboratory for Pathophysiology of Haematopoiesis and Liver, 1st Medical Clinic, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia

    M. BRODANOVÁ & B. FRIEDMANN

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KUHN, E., BRODAN, V., BRODANOVÁ, M. et al. Influence of Sleep Deprivation on Iron Metabolism. Nature 213, 1041–1042 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131041b0

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