In this study, changes in the activities of serum total and prostatic acid phosphatase (TACP and PACP, respectively), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), gamma( )-glutamyltransferase (GGT) and testosterone level were assessed in male rats exposed wholly to 17.8±2.6cm hrkgm day of gasoline vapours (8 hours daily, 6 days/week) for 20 weeks in exposure chambers. The results showed that exposure to gasolin...

Elevated serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is a screening marker for the diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency, which may fail to be diagnosed if serum ALP is not elevated. Here, we describe a case of vitamin D deficiency without elevation of serum ALP. A 1-year-old Japanese girl was referred to our hospital for the evaluation of genu varum. Her serum intact PTH level was elevated, while her serum A...

Serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase ( G G T ), alkaline phosphatase (A L P ) and aspartate aminotransferase (A ST) were assayed in patients with cancer. GGT was more sensitive than either ALP or AST in detecting metastatic car­ cinoma to the liver in both icteric and anicteric patients with cancer. Extremely high activities of GGT were seen in patients with hepatoma, carcinoma of the pancreas a...

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP; EC 3.1.3.1) isoenzymes were measured in the plasma of 63 untreated hyperthyroid patients (the hyperthyroid group), 58 treated hyperthyroid patients, and 100 blood donors. Total, liver, and bone ALP activities were significantly higher in the hyperthyroid group than in the treated hyperthyroid group or the blood donors. Bone ALP was more frequently and more markedly ab...

Reaching the differential diagnosis of tuberculosis and sarcoidosis can be difficult due to granulomatous inflammation. Determining alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity in serum for sarcoidosis. This study comprised 104 acid-fast bacilli (AFB) positive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, 90 biopsy-proven 43 healthy controls were included. ALP was measured at first admission patients. There a s...

A systematic prospective survey of 100 outpatients with rheumatoid arthritis revealed that 45 had biochemical evidence of liver disease. In most cases this was due to increases in total serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and/or gammaglutamyl transpeptidase (GGT). Examination of serum ALP isoenzyme profiles in 50 of the patients showed that the liver isoenzyme was the sole or major component in 44...

The effect of daily, oral administration of ethanolic extract of Khaya senegalensis stem bark (2mg/kg body weight) for 18days on the alkaline phosphatase, aspartate and alanine aminotransferase activities of rat liver and serum were investigated. Compared with the control, the activities of liver alkaline phosphatase (ALP), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) inc...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between serum levels of ovarian and gonadotropin hormones, age and number of follicles with follicular alkaline and acid phosphatase activity in infertile women under controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. methods: after collection of follicular fluid and calculation of the number of follicles, the specific activity of alkaline (...

Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) precipitates bone type serum alkaline phosphatase (sALP) isoenzyme specifically. The precipitates are composed of the macromolecules of WGA and "bone type sALP" (WGA-ALP complex). In order to use bone type sALP as a marker in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), a method to separate "bone type sALP" from the "WGA-ALP complex" was established by using N-acetyl-D...