CHEMOPREVENTION OF NEONATAL JAUNDICE - POTENCY OF TIN-PROTOPORPHYRIN IN AN ANIMAL-MODEL
CHEMOPREVENTION OF NEONATAL JAUNDICE - POTENCY OF TIN-PROTOPORPHYRIN IN AN ANIMAL-MODEL
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DOI:
10.1126/science.6896768
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
KAPPAS, A
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作者:
DRUMMOND, GS;KAPPAS, A
The substantial increases of hepatic, splenic and renal heme oxygenase levels that occur shortly after birth in neonatal rats were prevented by a single administration of tin-protoporphyrin (10 .mu.mol/kg of body wt). With this treatment serum bilirubin levels declined within 24 h to near-normal adult levels and remained low throughout the postnatal period. Zinc-protoporphyrin at doses up to 50-fold greater than the effective dose of tin-protoporphyrin did not prevent the immediate increases in tissue heme oxygenase activities and in serum bilirubin levels that occur postnatally. Studies in vitro with microsomal heme oxygenase in human spleen indicate that tin-protoporphyrin is a potent competitive inhibitor of the oxidation of heme to bile pigment in this tissue.