Yasutoshi Murayama

ORCID: 0000-0001-5875-1403 · 2 papers in corpus
review 2022
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms23126478

5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is a natural amino acid and a precursor of heme and chlorophyll. Exogenously administered 5-ALA is metabolized into protoporphyrin IX (PpIX). PpIX accumulates in cancer cells because of the low activity of ferr…

1997
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(97)91033-5