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Shigeru Sassa

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1 Identification of a human heme exporter that is essential for erythropoiesis. Cell 2004 2.66
2 Genetic rescue of Leishmania deficiency in porphyrin biosynthesis creates mutants suitable for analysis of cellular events in uroporphyria and for photodynamic therapy. J Biol Chem 2002 1.39
3 Why heme needs to be degraded to iron, biliverdin IXalpha, and carbon monoxide? Antioxid Redox Signal 2004 1.32
4 Aberrant iron accumulation and oxidized status of erythroid-specific delta-aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS2)-deficient definitive erythroblasts. Blood 2002 1.06
5 Leishmania spp.: delta-aminolevulinate-inducible neogenesis of porphyria by genetic complementation of incomplete heme biosynthesis pathway. Exp Parasitol 2007 1.02
6 Late-onset X-linked sideroblastic anemia following hemodialysis. Blood 2003 0.94
7 Cytoprotective effects of heme oxygenase in acute renal failure. Contrib Nephrol 2005 0.93
8 Transgenic Leishmania model for delta-aminolevulinate-inducible monospecific uroporphyria: cytolytic phototoxicity initiated by singlet oxygen-mediated inactivation of proteins and its ablation by endosomal mobilization of cytosolic uroporphyrin. Eukaryot Cell 2008 0.90
9 delta-Aminolevulinate dehydratase (ALAD) porphyria: the first case in North America with two novel ALAD mutations. Mol Genet Metab 2005 0.89
10 The lower intestinal tract-specific induction of heme oxygenase-1 by glutamine protects against endotoxemic intestinal injury. Crit Care Med 2005 0.87
11 Hypoxia decreases the expression of the two enzymes responsible for producing linear and cyclic tetrapyrroles in the heme biosynthetic pathway. FEBS J 2008 0.87
12 Protective role of heme oxygenase-1 in renal ischemia. Antioxid Redox Signal 2004 0.87
13 A protective role of interleukin 11 on hepatic injury in acute endotoxemia. Shock 2004 0.86
14 Multiple mechanisms for hereditary sideroblastic anemia. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2002 0.86
15 Protective role of heme oxygenase-1 in the intestinal tissue injury in an experimental model of sepsis. Crit Care Med 2003 0.85
16 Fundamental role of heme oxygenase in the protection against ischemic acute renal failure. Jpn J Pharmacol 2002 0.85
17 CYP2E1 overexpression up-regulates both non-specific delta-aminolevulinate synthase and heme oxygenase-1 in the human hepatoma cell line HLE/2E1. Int J Mol Med 2003 0.84
18 Oxidative stress is involved in hydroxyurea-induced erythroid differentiation. Br J Haematol 2003 0.82
19 Arg452 substitution of the erythroid-specific 5-aminolaevulinate synthase, a hot spot mutation in X-linked sideroblastic anaemia, does not itself affect enzyme activity. Eur J Haematol 2006 0.82
20 Highly liver-specific heme oxygenase-1 induction by interleukin-11 prevents carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity. Int J Mol Med 2006 0.82
21 Differential gene expression profiling between wild-type and ALAS2-null erythroblasts: identification of novel heme-regulated genes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005 0.82
22 Delta-aminolevulinate-induced host-parasite porphyric disparity for selective photolysis of transgenic Leishmania in the phagolysosomes of mononuclear phagocytes: a potential novel platform for vaccine delivery. Eukaryot Cell 2012 0.82
23 Dual gene defects involving delta-aminolaevulinate dehydratase and coproporphyrinogen oxidase in a porphyria patient. Br J Haematol 2006 0.80
24 Porphyrias in Japan: compilation of all cases reported through 2002. Int J Hematol 2004 0.78
25 [Contribution of Japanese researchers to progress in the field of hematology in the last 100 years: Porphyria/congenital heme synthetase deficiency]. Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi 2002 0.75
26 [Heme biosynthesis and iron metabolism]. Seikagaku 2003 0.75