Mice are poor heme absorbers and do not require intestinal Hmox1 for dietary heme iron assimilation

• Carine Fillebeen,
• Konstantinos Gkouvatsos,
• Gabriela Fragoso,
• Annie Calvé,
• Daniel Garcia-Santos,
• Marzell Buffler,
• Christiane Becker,
• Klaus Schümann,
• Prem Ponka,
• Manuela M. Santos,
• Kostas Pantopoulos

Affiliations

Carine Fillebeen

Department of Medicine, McGill University, and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Konstantinos Gkouvatsos

Department of Medicine, McGill University, and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gabriela Fragoso

Département de Médecine, Université de Montréal, and Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montŕeal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Annie Calvé

Département de Médecine, Université de Montréal, and Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montŕeal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Daniel Garcia-Santos

Department of Physiology, McGill University, and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marzell Buffler

Science Center Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Am Forum 5, Freising, Germany

Christiane Becker

Science Center Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Am Forum 5, Freising, Germany

Klaus Schümann

Science Center Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Am Forum 5, Freising, Germany

Prem Ponka

Department of Physiology, McGill University, and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Manuela M. Santos

Département de Médecine, Université de Montréal, and Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montŕeal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Kostas Pantopoulos

Department of Medicine, McGill University, and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada