AU - Ghaffari, Seyyed Mohammad Ali AU - Moshtaghi, Seyyed Ali Asghar TI - The Effect of Indium on Intestinal Absorption of Iron Using Everted Gut Sac Method PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - umsha JN - umsha VO - 10 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-677-en.html 4100 - http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-677-en.pdf SO - umsha 1 ABĀ  - Iron is an essential metal which involves in more cell activities in the form of enzymes and / or other metaloproteins . Indium is one of the toxic elements that may be interfered with iron metabolism . Using this element has increased recently by different industry. Therefore the aim of this investigation was to study interfer of indium on first phase of iron metabolism (absorption intestinal ) by everted gut sac (E.G.S) . Preliminary results showed that the optimum concentration of iron and indium for best intestinal absorption were 102 and 70 mg/L , respectively . Addition of glucose to incubation media caused increase in iron and / or indium absorption and reduction was seen where ouabain was added to the media , suggest a probable active transport of the element across of the intestinal mucosal cell . Iron absorption was reduced almost by 28% when indium was presented in incubation media . Results obtained from this study indicated that indium might be able to interfer with iron metabolism , at intestinal absorption . CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - umsha PG - 5 PT - Original YR - 2003