Heme arginine (or heme arginine) is a compound of heme and arginine used to treat acute porphyria by reducing the excessive production of δ-aminolevulinic acid, which causes acute symptoms during the onset of acute porphyria.
Heme Oxygenase-1-IN-2 is a novel inhibitor of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), displaying potent antiproliferative activity in vitro, with an IC50 value of 0.95 μM.
The nonapeptide 149,YFPGQFAFS157 (chemerin-9), corresponding to the C terminus of processed chemerin, retained most of the activity of the full-size protein, with regard to agonism toward the chemerinR.the natural ligand of ChemR23 (chemerinR).