Macrobert AJ

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus
2006
British journal of pharmacology ·doi:10.1038/sj.bjp.0706668

The porphyrin precursor 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is being widely used in photodynamic therapy of cancer. Improvement in ALA delivery has been sought through the use of ALA derivatives, in particular the esterification of ALA with aliphat…

1992
British journal of cancer ·doi:10.1038/bjc.1992.175

Aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) is the first committed step in haem synthesis. In the presence of excess ALA the natural regulatory feedback system is disrupted allowing accumulation of protoporphyrin IX (PP IX) the last intermediate product bef…