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Formation of uroporphyrin from porphobilinogen by the heart-body tissue and coelomocytes of the polychaete Neoamphitrite figulus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. Y. Kennedy  and
R. Phillips Dales
G. Y. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Cancer Research Unit, University of Sheffield
R. Phillips Dales
Affiliation:
Bedford College, University of London
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Suspensions of heart-body tissue and of coelomocytes in solutions of porphobilinogen produced uroporphyrin. This affords additional evidence for the haematopoietic function of the heart-body, and for the view that the free porphyrins found there and in the haemoglobin-containing coelomocytes are formed by these tissues' own activity in haem synthesis.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 1968 , pp. 77 - 79
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1968

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