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The carrier protein that transports absorbed iron through the blood is?

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Greater than 95% of iron in plasma is bound to its circulating transport protein transferrin, which delivers most of its iron to erythrocyte precursors—i.e. erythroid progenitor cells of the bone marrow that differentiate into mature RBCs

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