Component
Splenic iron storage
Independent biological entity. Read linked claims for experimental scope and context.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
Every nutrient with a recorded effect on this component, credited to the nutrient that acted rather than the chapter that recorded it. Open a nutrient to see the findings and the conditions they were measured under.
Other things that act on it
Enzymes, hormones, genes, and other components with a recorded effect. These are not nutrients, so they do not count toward the arrows above. Each finding names the chapter that recorded it.
How nutrients reach it in more than one step
Chains of two or more recorded steps that end here, grouped by the nutrient they start from. Each step is a separate finding, so a chain is a route a mechanism could take, not proof that it does.
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
Vitamin A-deficient rats had more splenic iron but lower serum iron and transferrin saturation.
Experimental context and source evidence
- availability_state
- nutrient_deficiency Imported condition classification; unverified.
- cross_nutrient
- Vitamin A deficiency -> iron distribution.
- experimental_model
- Controlled rat dietary groups.
- limitations
- Erythrophagocytosis is a proposed explanation, not a fully isolated causal sequence.
- nutrient_topic
- Vitamin A research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Vitamin A
- organism
- Rattus norvegicus
- plain_language
- Iron could be retained in one tissue while circulating availability fell.
- primary_references
- [va-cunha2014] Vitamin A deficiency modulates iron metabolism via ineffective erythropoiesis (2014). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24998947/ DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2014.05.005
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Spleen and serum
- trigger_kind
- nutrient_deficiency Imported condition classification; unverified.
Vitamin A: forms, mechanisms, deficiency and excess (2026-09-17) · lines 1743–1753
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Controlled rat dietary groups. · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### va-deficiency-iron-sequestration Vitamin A-deficient rats had more splenic iron but lower serum iron and transferrin saturation. Condition category: nutrient_deficiency nutrient_topic: Vitamin A research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Iron could be retained in one tissue while circulating availability fell. organism: Rattus norvegicus tissue_or_cell_type: Spleen and serum experimental_model: Controlled rat dietary groups. limitations: Erythrophagocytosis is a proposed explanation, not a fully isolated causal sequence. cross_nutrient: Vitamin A deficiency -> iron distribution. [va-cunha2014] Vitamin A deficiency modulates iron metabolism via ineffective erythropoiesis (2014). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24998947/ DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2014.05.005
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The events it takes part in
A mechanism often involves more than two components. These are the full events, with every participant and its role.
Situations it appears in
Low-supply and faulty-machinery situations recorded in the chapters where this component plays a part.
In the sources
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Open hypotheses
Proposed ideas that involve this component. They are labeled as hypotheses and do not change any recorded statement.
This is a research prototype built from draft material. It is not medical advice, and its statements still await verification against the original studies.