Owing to the low solubility of Fe 3+ , iron is predominantly sequestered by various proteins, including transferrin, lactoferrin, hemoglobin, haptoglobin, hemopexin, and lipocalin (Ongey and Banerjee, 2024[330])

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In recent years, this definition has been substituted by the broader term of reactive oxygen species (ROS)
Genetic defects in the innate immune system (such as loss of NOD2 function) lead to dysregulation of the hosts immune response to the gut microbiota, constituting a key driver of chronic inflammation (99)