• Gautam Rishi and V Nathan Subramaniam.
• The Liver Disease and Iron Disorders Research Group, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• Vitam Horm. 2019 Jan 1; 110: 47-70.

AbstractSince its discovery in 2001, there have been a number of important discoveries and findings that have increased our knowledge about the functioning of hepcidin. Hepcidin, the master iron regulator has been shown to be regulated by a number of physiological stimuli and their associated signaling pathways. This chapter will summarize our current understanding of how these physiological stimuli and downstream signaling molecules are involved in hepcidin modulation and ultimately contribute to the regulation of systemic or local iron homeostasis. The signaling pathways and molecules described here have been shown to primarily affect hepcidin at a transcriptional level, but these transcriptional changes correlate with changes in systemic iron levels as well, supporting the functional effects of hepcidin regulation by these signaling pathways.© 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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