1. Preface

   • A. C. Beynen
   • G. J. P. M. De Bekker
   • C. E. West

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. International Conference on Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences

   Announcement Pages: ii - ii

3. Significance of iron bioavailability for iron recommendations

   • W. van Dokkum

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 11

4. The physiology of iron, transferrin, and ferritin

   • H. G. van Eijk
   • G. de Jong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 24

5. Iron requirements

   • Leif Hallberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 45

6. Comparison of cytosolic products formed in rat liver in response to parenteral and dietary iron loading

   • P. L. Ringeling
   • M. I. Cleton
   • H. G. van Eijk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 54

7. The effect of different iron compounds on transferrin receptor expression in term human cytotrophoblast cells

   • J. S. Starreveld
   • A. M. Abdoel
   • H. G. v. Eijk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 63

8. The role of iron in experimental porphyria and porphyria cutanea tarda

   • P. D. Siersema
   • R. P. van Helvoirt
   • H. G. van Eijk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 72

9. Dietary iron loading does not influence biliary iron excretion in rats

   • Shiguang Yu
   • Anton C. Beynen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 75

10. Impaired iron status in rats as induced by copper deficiency

    • G. J. Van Den Berg
    • F. Van Houwelingen
    • A. C. Beynen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 79

11. Iron status in rats fed a purified diet without vitamin A

    • A. C. Beynen
    • K. W. Sijtsma
    • C. E. West

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 84

12. High intakes of tin lower iron status in rats

    • A. C. Beynen
    • H. L. M. Pekelharing
    • A. G. Lemmens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 88

13. Dietary fructose vs glucose does not influence iron status in rats

    • A. C. Beynen
    • I. A. Brouwer
    • A. G. Lemmens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 92