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Definition of Nonheme
1. not containing iron that is bound like that of heme [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonheme
Literary usage of Nonheme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Can Food-based Strategies Help Reduce Vitamin A and Iron Deficiencies?: A by Marie T. Ruel (2001)
"Certain combinations of foods, when eaten together, promote nonheme iron
bioavailability ... Home-Processing Techniques to Reduce Inhibitors of nonheme Iron ..."
2. Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel: Levels Needed for Cognitive And by Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (2006)
"Alcohol enhances nonheme iron absorption, possibly by enhancing gastric acid
secretion ... Carotenes been reported as enhancers of nonheme iron absorption ..."
3. Food Policy for the Poor: Expanding the Research Frontiers : Highlights from by Joachim Von Braun, Rajul Pandya-Lorch (2005)
"Iron from plants (nonheme iron) is less bioavailable than iron from flesh
foods (heme iron) such as meat, fish, and poultry. ..."
4. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"The nitrosyl nonheme iron protein at g=2.04 may be an iron-sulfur cluster protein
such as one of the mitochondrial electron transport enzymes. ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... the mitochondrial steroid ll/3-hydroxylase has been resolved into three
components: adrenodoxin re- ductase or flavoprotein (FP), adrenodoxin or nonheme ..."
6. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-term, High-intensity Combat Operations by Fnb, Institute of Medicine (U. S.), High-stress Situations, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (2005)
"Studies on the bioavailability of zinc in humans: Effects of heme and nonheme
iron on the absorption of zinc. Am J Clin Nutr 34(4):475-482. Sorensen LB. ..."
7. Mineral Tolerance of Animals by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"J. Nutr. 120: 507-513. Davis, CD, EA Malecki, and JL Greger. 1992. Interactions
among dietary manganese, heme iron, and nonheme iron ..."
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