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Science 6 December 1974:
Vol. 186. no. 4167, pp. 936 - 938
DOI: 10.1126/science.186.4167.936
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Zinc Protoporphyrin in the Erythrocytes of Patients with Lead Intoxication and Iron Deficiency Anemia

A. A. Lamola 1 and T. Yamane 1

1 Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

The fluorescent porphyrin in the erythrocytes of patients with lead intoxication or with iron deficiency anemia is zinc protoporphyrin that is bound to globin moieties, probably at heme binding sites.


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