Stimulation of the pathway of porphyrin synthesis in the liver of rats and mice by griseofulvin, 3,5-Diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine and related drugs: evidence for two basically different mechanisms
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 146 (1), 285-287
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1460285
Abstract
Griseofulvin and isogriseofulvin cause, like 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine, a fall in the activity of the hepatic enzyme porphyrin-metal chelatase and accumulation of protoporphyrin in the liver. Analogues of either griseofulvin or 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine which do not decrease the chelatase activity are not porphyrogenic on their own, but can potentiate the porphyria caused by 3,5-diethoxycarbonyl-1,4-dihydrocollidine. This suggests the existence of two basically different mechanisms by which drugs stimulate the pathway of porphyrin synthesis in the liver.Keywords
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