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Abstract
The synthetic metalloporphyrin, Cr-protoporphyrin, as a potent competitive inhibitor of heme oxygenase activity in rat spleen, liver, and kidney. When administered to neonatal animals in a single dose immediately after birth, Cr-protoporphyrin suppresses postnatal hyperbilirubinemia and produces a marked and sustained lowering of heme oxidation activity in liver, spleen, and kidney. The metalloporphyrin also potently inhibited the rate of heme degradation to bile pigment in human spleen.Entities:
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Year: 1982 PMID: 6897419 PMCID: PMC2186871 DOI: 10.1084/jem.156.6.1878
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Med ISSN: 0022-1007 Impact factor: 14.307