Protoporphyrins
"Protoporphyrins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Porphyrins with four methyl, two vinyl, and two propionic acid side chains attached to the pyrrole rings. Protoporphyrin IX occurs in hemoglobin, myoglobin, and most of the cytochromes.
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D011524
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.578.840.500.725 D03.549.909.500.725 D04.345.783.500.725 D23.767.727.725
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Li F, Lu J, Cheng J, Wang L, Matsubara T, Csanaky IL, Klaassen CD, Gonzalez FJ, Ma X. Human PXR modulates hepatotoxicity associated with rifampicin and isoniazid co-therapy. Nat Med. 2013 Apr; 19(4):418-20.