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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI103500

Radioactive Iron Metabolism and Erythrocyte Survival Studies of the Mechanism of the Anemia Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Emil J. Freireich, Joseph F. Ross, Theodore B. Bayles, Charles P. Emerson, and Stuart C. Finch

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial Hospital of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine of the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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Present address: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 14, Md.

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Present address: Office of the Dean, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

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Present address: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

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This investigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service, and a contract between U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

Find articles by Freireich, E. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial Hospital of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine of the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 14, Md.

3

Present address: Office of the Dean, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

4

Present address: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

1

This investigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service, and a contract between U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

Find articles by Ross, J. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial Hospital of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine of the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 14, Md.

3

Present address: Office of the Dean, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

4

Present address: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

1

This investigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service, and a contract between U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

Find articles by Bayles, T. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial Hospital of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine of the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 14, Md.

3

Present address: Office of the Dean, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

4

Present address: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

1

This investigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service, and a contract between U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

Find articles by Emerson, C. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial Hospital of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine of the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 14, Md.

3

Present address: Office of the Dean, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

4

Present address: Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

1

This investigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, U. S. Public Health Service, and a contract between U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.

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Published July 1, 1957 - More info

Published in Volume 36, Issue 7 on July 1, 1957
J Clin Invest. 1957;36(7):1043–1058. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI103500.
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