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Whole-body iron transport and metabolism: Mechanistic, multi-scale model to
improve treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease
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Sarkar J
; Potdar AA
; Saidel GM
PLoS Comput Biol
2018[Apr]; 14
(4
): e1006060
PMID29659573
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Iron plays vital roles in the human body including enzymatic processes,
oxygen-transport via hemoglobin and immune response. Iron metabolism is
characterized by ~95% recycling and minor replenishment through diet. Anemia of
chronic kidney disease (CKD) is characterized by a lack of synthesis of
erythropoietin leading to reduced red blood cell (RBC) formation and aberrant
iron recycling. Treatment of CKD anemia aims to normalize RBC count and serum
hemoglobin. Clinically, the various fluxes of iron transport and accumulation are
not measured so that changes during disease (e.g., CKD) and treatment are
unknown. Unwanted iron accumulation in patients is known to lead to adverse
effects. Current whole-body models lack the mechanistic details of iron transport
related to RBC maturation, transferrin (Tf and TfR) dynamics and assume passive
iron efflux from macrophages. Hence, they are not predictive of whole-body iron
dynamics and cannot be used to design individualized patient treatment. For
prediction, we developed a mechanistic, multi-scale computational model of
whole-body iron metabolism incorporating four compartments containing major pools
of iron and RBC generation process. The model accounts for multiple forms of iron
in vivo, mechanisms involved in iron uptake and release and their regulation.
Furthermore, the model is interfaced with drug pharmacokinetics to allow
simulation of treatment dynamics. We calibrated our model with experimental and
clinical data from peer-reviewed literature to reliably simulate CKD anemia and
the effects of current treatment involving combination of epoietin-alpha and iron
dextran. This in silico whole-body model of iron metabolism predicts that a year
of treatment can potentially lead to 90% downregulation of ferroportin (FPN)
levels, 15-fold increase in iron stores with only a 20% increase in iron flux
from the reticulo-endothelial system (RES). Model simulations quantified
unmeasured iron fluxes, previously unknown effects of treatment on FPN-level and
iron stores in the RES. This mechanistic whole-body model can be the basis for
future studies that incorporate iron metabolism together with related clinical
experiments. Such an approach could pave the way for development of effective
personalized treatment of CKD anemia.