Hepcidin/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Hepcidin.

A peptide hormone, secreted by the liver and believed to act primarily in the duodenum, currently believed to be a major, if not the master, regulatory mechanism of human iron metabolism, and indeed in mammals

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