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Protoporphyrins

Known as: Protoporphyrin, Protoporphyrins [Chemical/Ingredient] 
Porphyrins with four methyl, two vinyl, and two propionic acid side chains attached to the pyrrole rings. Protoporphyrin IX occurs in hemoglobin… 
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42 relations
In BloodProcess of secretionProtoporphyrin.free:MCnc:Pt:Bld:QnProtoporphyrin.free:SCnc:Pt:Bld:Qn

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N-ethylprotoporphyrin IXN-methylprotoporphyrin IXN-methylprotoporphyrin dimethyl esterPH 1008

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Porphyrins

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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The mechanism of the suicidal, reductive inactivation of microsomal cytochrome P-450 by carbon tetrachloride.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Dual control mechanism for heme oxygenase: tin(IV)-protoporphyrin potently inhibits enzyme activity while markedly increasing content of enzyme protein in liver.
Tin(IV)-protoporphyrin (Sn-protoporphyrin) potently inhibits heme degradation to bile pigments in vitro and in vivo, a property… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Lipid photooxidation in erythrocyte ghosts: sensitization of the membranes toward ascorbate- and superoxide-induced peroxidation and lysis.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Enzymatic heme oxygenase activity in soluble extracts of the unicellular red alga, Cyanidium caldarium.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Rat liver ferrochelatase. Purification, properties, and stimulation by fatty acids.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Quantitation of red cell porphyrins by fluorescence scanning after thin-layer chromatography.
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Tetraethyl-lead poisoning.
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
The structural organization of haem synthesis in rat liver mitochondria.
1. Anaerobic conditions are normally necessary for incorporation of iron into haems and only ferrous iron is used. After addition… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Effects of hemin and other porphyrins on protein synthesis in a reticulocyte lysate cell-free system.
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
SYNTHESIS OF PORPHYRINS BY ISOLATED CHLOROPLASTS OF EUGLENA.
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