title: Effect of zinc on protoporphyrin induced photohaemolysis.
abstract: Zinc is readily inserted into protoporphyrin suspended either in a salt-sucrose buffered solution or endogenously present in red cell haemolysate in erythropoietic protoporphyria. Red cells from healthy persons were incubated with metal-free protoporphyrin or zinc-protoporphyrin and irradiated with light at 360-470 nm. The photohaemolysis was significantly less with zinc-protoporphyrin compared with that of the metal-free protoporphyrin. The results are discusssed in relation to the possibility of using zinc as a photoprotective and hepatoprotective agent in erythropoietic protoporphyria.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000187:drug effects; D004920:Erythropoiesis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000528:radiation effects; D006461:Hemolysis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011524:Protoporphyrins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays; D015032:Zinc / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D011166:Porphyrins; D011524:Protoporphyrins; D015032:Zinc