35 epileptic patients, aged 10 to 58 years (mean 23), who were taking anticonvulsant drugs were studied. The patients exhibited a 34% reduction in serum calcium levels, a 41 % increase in serum alkaline phosphatase activity and a slight but insignificant decrease in serum phosphate, compared to untreated controls. These changes appear to be related to the anticonvulsant drug taken, in the ...

1. The development, localization and heterogeneity of acid phosphatase and a Zn(2+)-activated acid phosphatase in cellular fractions of developing chick liver were studied. 2. Acid phosphatase is distributed abundantly in the particulate and soluble fractions. The soluble fraction is rich in Zn(2+)-activated acid phosphatase, which attains its peak activity at about 15 days of incubation. 3. Th...

Evaluators: Bernard E. Statland, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Box 198, Mayo Memorial Building, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455 Donald S. Young and Maurice Green, Clinical Chemistry Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 20014 Victor G. Bethune, Jerome S. Nisselbaum, and Morton Schwartz, Department of Biochemistry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...

the activity of mouse endometrial alkaline phosphatase after hyperstimulation and progesterone injection at the implantation time alkaline phosphatase (alp) of endometrium may play a critical function in the development and implantation of embryo. the aim of this study was to determine the localization of endometrial alp activity after hyperstimulation and progesterone injection. thirty adult f...

The increased alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) activity of reconstituted lyophilized control sera has recently been the focus of considerable interest because of its possible implications for quality-control procedures. We confirm that these reconstituted materials show a temperature-dependent increase in alkaline phosphatase activity, but could show no alteration in activity of fresh sera. Th...

A cell-wall-associated phosphatase in hyphae of Fonsecaea pedrosoi, a fungal pathogen causing chromoblastomycosis, was previously characterized by the authors. In the present work, the expression of an acidic ectophosphatase activity in F. pedrosoi conidial forms was investigated. The surface phosphatase activity in F. pedrosoi is associated with the cell wall, as demonstrated by transmission e...

Plasma alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme activities were determined in patients with breast cancer to diagnose and monitor bone and liver metastases. Bone alkaline phosphatase activity was increased in 21 of 50 patients (42%) with radiologically confirmed bone metastases, while total alkaline phosphatase activity was increased in only 10 of 50 (20%); liver alkaline phosphatase activity was raised ...

Phosphate solubilizing microbes (PSM) can improve soil P availability by dissolution. These make substances that regulate plant growth, which promotes growth. The present study aimed to characterize PSM and determine how application affected solubilization, phosphatase activity, upland rice yield. greenhouse experiment used a factorial randomized block design (RBD) with two factors three replic...

Bile duct ligation in the rat leads to a rapid increase in hepatic and serum alkaline phosphatase activity. Within 12 hr after bile duct ligation, hepatic alkaline phosphatase has increased 7-fold and serum alkaline phosphatase activity 2(1/2)-fold. The elevation in the serum activity is completely due to an increase in an isozyme that appears to originate in the liver. This serum isozyme and l...