THE average physician confronted with the subject of porphyrin metabolism pictures either a bewilderingly complex group of strange pigments obtained from stools and urine or an exceedingly rare ...

A common antihistamine may offer hope for patients with a rare genetic disease that can lead to severe liver damage and ...

Some cofactors (including the iron-porphyrin prosthetic groups of hemoglobin ... other classes exert their biological effects by different mechanisms, including receptor binding and nonselective ...

The X-ray crystal structure of human heme oxygenase-1, which instigates the degradation process, reveals insights into the enzymatic mechanism ... pyrrole groups of the porphyrin macrocycle.

Researchers find that allergy medicine could help patients with a rare genetic disease avoid liver transplants.

Relatively large organic molecules, such as water-soluble porphyrin and cristal violet, were surprisingly found to form highly ... The metals in the absence or presence of adlayers were dissolved ...