Katz Y, Weizman A, Gavish M
Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel.
Lancet. 1989 Apr 29;1(8644):932-3. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(89)92510-5.
Accumulating data indicate that porphyrins are physiologically endogenous ligands to mitochondrial peripheral benzodiazepine receptors. An isoquinoline carboxamide derivative that likewise binds to peripheral benzodiazepine receptors could prove therapeutically useful in porphyrias by displacing porphyrins from these receptors in mitochondria.