Long-term administration of massive doses of Sn-protoporphyrin in anemic mutant mice (sphha/sphha).
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- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 162 (3), 864-876
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.162.3.864
Abstract
The effects of long-term administration of very large doses of Sn-protoporphyrin on hematological indices, histological changes, plasma bilirubin levels, tissue heme oxygenase activity, and activities of heme biosynthetic enzymes, were examined in genetically anemia mutant mice with hemolytic anemia (sphha/sphha). Long-term weekly treatment with Sn-protoporphyrin (100 .mu.mol/kg body weight for 32 wk) did not alter hematological indices, histological findings or enzyme activities related to heme biosynthesis, even though it resulted in sustained decreases in microsomal heme oxygenase activity in the liver, kidney, and spleen, and a prolonged decrease in plasma bilirubin concentration. Inhibition of heme oxygenase did not alter the level of cytochrome P-450 in the liver and the kidney. The results indicate that long-term treatment with massive doses of Sn-protoporphyrin suppresses bilirubin formation but does not produce significant histopathological changes or appreciably interfere with heme synthesis, in this strain of genetically anemic mice. These findings provide further support for the idea that suppression of heme degradation to bile pigment by the inhibition of heme oxygenase may prove useful to the prevention of severe hyperbilirubinemia in humans.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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