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    Heme oxygenase, or haem oxygenase, (HMOX, commonly abbreviated as HO) is an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of heme to produce biliverdin, ferrous...
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    erythrocytes from the circulation. In the first step, heme is converted to biliverdin by the enzyme heme oxygenase (HO). NADPH is used as the reducing agent, molecular...
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    HMOX1 (redirect from Heme oxygenase 1)
    HMOX1 (heme oxygenase 1 gene) is a human gene that encodes for the enzyme heme oxygenase 1 (EC 1.14.99.3). Heme oxygenase (abbreviated HMOX or HO) mediates...
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    biomedical and pharmaceutical initiative. The enzymatic reaction of heme oxygenase inspired the development of synthetic CORMs. The first synthetic CORMs...
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    first compound in the porphyrin synthesis pathway, the pathway that leads to heme in mammals, as well as chlorophyll in plants. 5ALA is used in photodynamic...
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    HMOX2 (redirect from Heme oxygenase 2)
    Heme oxygenase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HMOX2 gene. Heme oxygenase, an essential enzyme in heme catabolism, cleaves heme to form...
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    Hemoglobin (redirect from Heme spectra)
    Retrieved 2008-10-12. Kikuchi, G.; Yoshida, T.; Noguchi, M. (2005). "Heme oxygenase and heme degradation". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications...
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  • microbial P450 monooxygenase research: peroxo-heme intermediates--the central bus station in heme oxygenase catalysis". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 338...
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    mostly produced by the destruction of erythrocytes. Heme is metabolized into biliverdin (via heme oxygenase) and then into bilirubin (via biliverdin reductase)...
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  • pathways. The most extensively studied pathway is the metabolism of heme by heme oxygenase which occurs throughout the body with significant activity in the...
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    extracellular heme can lead to the deactivation of Bach1 repression which leads to the transcriptional activation of antioxidant heme oxygenase-1 gene. Hemoglobin...
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    genes encoding cytoprotective proteins. NRF2 induces the expression of heme oxygenase 1 in vitro leading to an increase in phase II enzymes. NRF2 also inhibits...
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    electron transfer from NADPH to cytochrome P450 and other heme proteins including heme oxygenase in the endoplasmic reticulum of the eukaryotic cell. Human...
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    gamma (c15), and delta (c20). In the context of heme, metabolic biotransformation by heme oxygenase results in the selective opening of the alpha-methine...
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    pathways, the best understood of which is the catabolic action of heme oxygenase on the heme derived from hemoproteins such as hemoglobin. Following the first...
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    consists of a group of competitive inhibitors of heme oxygenase, a rate-limiting enzyme in the heme catabolic pathway. Tin mesoporphyrin is one of the...
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    pregnancy and preeclampsia. Research topics include the enzyme placental heme oxygenase (HO), carbon monoxide (CO), and soluble Flt-1. "Asif Ahmed". scholar...
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    a sign indicating the presence of underlying diseases involving abnormal heme metabolism, liver dysfunction, or biliary-tract obstruction. The prevalence...
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    investigated for cancer therapies. ZnPP is a competitive inhibitor of heme oxygenase. Heme oxygenase is a cytoprotective enzyme that copes with oxidative stress...
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    N2-(2-carboxyethyl)-L-arginine (CEA) synthase. Clavaminate synthase is a non-heme oxygenase dependent on iron and α-keto-glutarate and is encoded by orf5 of the...
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    improves angiotensin II-induced vascular dysfunction via induction of heme oxygenase-1". Hypertension. 55 (4): 897–904. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.149542...
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    α-ketoisocaproate dioxygenase (KIC dioxygenase), is an Fe(II)-containing non-heme oxygenase that catalyzes the second reaction in the catabolism of tyrosine - the...
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    biliverdin, and causes its dissociation from heme oxygenase (HO) (which catalyzes reaction of ferric heme --> biliverdin), causing the subsequent reduction...
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    oxidative stress in the cardiovascular system: focusing on the Bach1/heme oxygenase-1 pathway". Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. 7 (2): 87–93. doi:10...
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  • regulatory T-cells producing "tolerant molecules". These molecules including heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1), leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF), transforming growth factor...
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    for 24 hours. Subsequent analysis showed an increase in expression of heme oxygenase-1, a protein induced during oxidative stress. The American groundnut...
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    to heme, it is instead transported across the apical membrane by heme carrier protein 1 (HCP1). Heme is then catabolized by microsomal heme oxygenase into...
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  • induces the expression of heme oxygenase-1 in hematopoietic cells. Carbon monoxide, a byproduct of heme catabolism by heme oxygenase-1(HO-1), prevents an accumulation...
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    SH, Jeong GS, Oh HW, Kim YS, Pae HO, Chung HT, et al. (April 2010). "Heme oxygenase-1 mediates nicotine- and lipopolysaccharide-induced expression of cyclooxygenase-2...
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  • red blood cells are then degraded to release heme, which will be converted by microsomal heme oxygenase to iron, carbon monoxide and biliverdin, and are...
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