title: Suppression of hyperbilirubinemia in the rat neonate by chromium-protoporphyrin. Interactions of metalloporphyrins with microsomal heme oxygenase of human spleen.
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.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001663:Bilirubin / Q000097:blood; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D003864:Depression, Chemical; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006418:Heme / Q000378:metabolism; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D006932:Hyperbilirubinemia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008861:Microsomes / Q000378:metabolism; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases / Q000378:metabolism*; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011524:Protoporphyrins / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D011166:Porphyrins; D011524:Protoporphyrins; D006418:Heme; C036937:chromium protoporphyrin IX; D006899:Mixed Function Oxygenases; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing); D001663:Bilirubin