Update on enzyme and molecular defects in porphyria

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 66-69

  Elder, G H ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute intermittent porphyria; Congenital erythropoietic porphyria; Porphyria; Porphyria cutanea tarda; Variegate porphyria

Indexed keywords

UROPORPHYRINOGEN DECARBOXYLASE;

ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME DEFECT; GENE MUTATION; HEME SYNTHESIS; HEPATIC PORPHYRIA; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; PORPHYRIA; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PORPHYRIA VARIEGATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031835924     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.1998.tb00014.x     Document Type: Review

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