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Summary: Porphyria is an uncommon, genetically caused disease, which makes the blood pigment in hemoglobin to not properly be changed into material for your body to use. The title porphyria originates from the modern latin term porphyrin which are pigments containing heme or chlorophyll with molecules that have a flat ring of four connected heterocyclic groups and occasionally a metal atom. There are two different forms of porphyria; acute porphyria and cutaneous porphyria. Acute porphyria affects the nervous system, while cutaneous porphyria causes skin symptoms. Some symptoms of "acute porphyria include: severe abdominal pain, swelling of the abdomen (abdominal distention), pain in your chest, legs or back, constipation or diarrhea, vomiting, insomnia, heartbeat you can feel (palpitations), high blood pressure,"("Porphyria" 1-2). Some signs and symptoms of cutaneous porphyria are," Sensitivity to the sun and sometimes artificial light, causing burning pain, sudden painful skin redness (erythema) and swelling (edema), blisters that take weeks to heal, itching, fragile skin, scars or skin color changes from healing blisters, and increased hair growth" (Porphyria" 2).…

Introduction: Enzymes are biological molecules that act as a catalyst to significantly speed up the rate of the chemical reactions that take place within cells without being used up in the process. According to the website, www.ducksters.com, “enzymes are special types of proteins. Like all proteins, enzymes are made from strings of amino acids. The function of the enzyme is determined by the sequence of amino acids, types of amino acids, and the shape of the string.” Along with this we need to…

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Special delivery of toxic cell-free heme causes vascular damage in Sickle Cell Disease Scientists describe a novel mechanism responsible for blood vessel injury in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): microparticles derived from sickle cells deliver heme to the vascular endothelial cells causing oxidative damage. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder caused by a single base mutation in the DNA of affected patients, producing abnormal hemoglobin molecules. In SCD, red blood cells…

Dr. Eric Skaar from the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, gave this seminar on November 9, 2015. He talks about finding therapeutic targets for Staphylococcus aureus. He states that metals are required for infection and that bacteria encode high affinity metal acquisition systems. Heme, which is a cofactor of hemoglobin, is known to be the most abundant iron source in the vertebrate host, and is the main focus of this seminar. …

largely an alpha-helical protein which binds heme as a redox cofactor. The “heme nitrovinyl” group is specifically where nitrite modification of the heme macrocyle occurs in HRP, in the presence or absence of hydrogen peroxide. It’s regioselective at the 4-vinyl group leading to the formation of the heme 4-nitrovinyl moiety. This work investigated the structural properties of the adducts formed upon the reaction of ferric HRP with nitrite by resonance Raman spectroscopy. In the absorbance…

body. University of Virginia Health System has a dietary guideline for hemochromatosis, expressing about foods that should avoid, as well as substances a person should take in. Diets alone cannot cure hemochromatosis, diets are just a way to help manage levels of iron in a bloodstream. Patients of hemochromatosis can absorb four times the amount of iron consumed from the small intestines. Considering the body has no way of disposing of all the extra iron accumulating in organs related to the…

mimic those of a hundred other conditions. Each type of porphyria has the same root cause which is the production of heme in the body. Heme is a component of hemoglobin which is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. It also is an iron-containing compound used throughout the body in the role of breaking down chemicals so they can be removed from your body. (Kujtan 2005). Heme is made mainly in the bone marrow and the liver through the…

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Iron is an essential mineral that is needed for oxygen transport in the body’s blood and muscles. It is a major component in making hemoglobin in red blood cells and myoglobin in muscles. Hemoglobin and myoglobin are two proteins that transport oxygen from the lungs to the body’s muscles via blood. Iron also plays a role in energy metabolism. During exercise, iron aids the body by converting carbohydrates into energy and supplying the muscles with fresh oxygen. There are two forms of iron, heme…