Hematoporphyrins
"Hematoporphyrins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Iron-free derivatives of heme with 4 methyl groups, 2 hydroxyethyl groups and 2 propionic acid groups attached to the pyrrole rings. Some of these PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS are used in the PHOTOTHERAPY of malignant NEOPLASMS.
| Descriptor ID |
D006415
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.578.840.500.462 D03.549.909.500.462 D04.345.783.500.462 D23.767.727.462
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