Iron: infection and inflammation

Saturday, 13 April 2002

Organizer

J.J.M. Marx (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
R.R. Crichton (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)m)
 

Iron in infection and inflammation

Session I

 
Abstract no
Chair J.J.M. Marx (Utrecht, The Netherlands)  
9.30 – 10.00 Iron homeostasis – an overviewR.R. Crichton (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)  
10.00 – 10.20 The effect of iron homeostasis on NADPH-oxidase activity
S. Wilmet, R.J. Ward, and R.R. Crichton (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
86
10.20 – 10.45 Non-transferrin-bound iron in beta thalassemia and leukemia patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation
L. Duca, M.D. Cappellini, F. Centis, G. Fiorelli, I. Nava,and E. Angelucci (Milano, Italy)
80
10.45 end of session I  
10.45 – 11.15 coffee break  

Session II

   
Chair R.R. Crichton (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)  
11.15 – 11.40 Iron and atherosclerosis: role of non-transferrin-bound iron
J.J.M. Marx (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
85
11.40 – 12-05 Altered functions of iron loaded macrophages
R.J. Ward, S. Wilmet, R. Legssyer, and R.R. Crichton (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
85
12.05 – 12.30 Iron metabolism and erythrophagocytosis by macrophages in atherogenesis in vivo and in vitro
X.-M. Yuan, A. Hellsten, O. Melefors, and W. Li (Linköping, Sweden)
81
12.30 end of session2  
12.30 – 14.00 lunch and poster viewing  

Session III

   
Chair R. Ward (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)  
14.00 – 14.25 In vitro selection of mutations after long-term treatment of HIV-infected cells with bleomycin
N.A. Georgiou, T. van der Bruggen, D.M.C. Healy, C. van Tienen, P. de Bie, M. Oudshoorn, J.J.M. Marx, and B.S. van Asbeck (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
82
14.25 – 14.50 The bidentate iron chelators CP511 and CP502 enhance reactive oxygen species production at incomplete complexation with iron: significance in an HIV-infection model
N.A. Georgiou, T. van der Bruggen, P. de Bie, H. van Kats-Renaud, R.C. Hider, J.J.M. Marx, and B.S. van Asbeck (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
83
14.50 – 15.15 Reference data on non heam iron indices determined in the whole blood of neonates
O. Mykhaylyk, N. Dudchenko, T. Orlova, N. Pyasetska, and F. Steinberg (Essen, Germany / Kiev, Ukraine)
79
15.15 end of session III and of workshop7