Serum cholinesterase in tetanus

Serum cholinesterase in analbuminemia.

S EVERAL SUGGESTIONS have been made to explain the parallelism between serum cholinesterase and serum albuniin levels in chronic liver disease-first recognized by Faber (i), and since, by many othersand the moderate fall in serum cholinesterase found to occur ill normal persons after the infusion of albumin (2). Kunkel and Ward (3) suggested that a normal serum albumin level was needed for the ...

Anti-Tetanus Serum

Prognostic Value of Serum Cholinesterase

Objective: To determine whether serum cholinesterase level has a prognostic value in human acute organophosphorus poisoning. Design: Cohort (prospective) prognosis study. Setting: Medical ICU at University Hospital. Patients: Thirty consecutive patients admitted to the ICU for acute organophosphate poisoning. Measurements: Serum cholinesterase level was measured in all patients at the time of h...

Structure of human serum cholinesterase.

Human cholinesterase has recently been sequenced and cloned. It is a glycoprotein of 4 identical subunits, each subunit containing 9 carbohydrate chains and 3.5 disuljide bonds. Protein folding is likely to be very similar in human cholinesterase and Torpedo acetylcholinesterase. The cholinesterases have no significant sequence homology with the serine proteases and seem to belong to a separate...

Dibucaine inhibition of serum cholinesterase.

The dibucaine number (DN) was determined for serum cholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8, SChE) in plasma samples. The ones with a DN of 79-82 were used, because they had the "usual" SChE variant. The enzyme was assayed colorimetrically by the reaction of 5,5'-dithiobis-[2-nitrobenzoic acid] (DTNB) with the free sulfhydryl groups of thiocholine that were produced by the enzyme reaction with butrylthiochol...