In the present study phosphatase levels ( Acid and Alkaline ) were compared with sperm count and motility in 100 subjects with varying conditions. All the subjects presented were between 21-45 years of age. Samples of semen were collected from 100 cases comprising of the different grades of sperm concentration and motility. Human seminal fluid contains significant amount of acid phosphatase and...

Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular pathogen of protozoa and alveolar macrophages. This bacterium contains a gene (pilD) that is involved in both type IV pilus biogenesis and type II protein secretion. We previously demonstrated that the PilD prepilin peptidase is crucial for intracellular infection by L. pneumophila and that the secreted pilD-dependent proteins include a metalloprotease...

background: in the present investigation radiation and cadmium induced biochemical changes in the kidney of swiss albino mice have been studied. materials and methods: for this purpose, adult male swiss albino mice (6-8 weeks old) were divided into four groups. group i (sham-irradiated), group ii (treated with cdcl2 solution 20 ppm), group iii (irradiated with 1.25, 2.5 and 5.0 gy gamma rays), ...

Acid phosphatase (ACP) enzyme, first demonstrated in the urine 1925, was found to be much more prevalent in male than in female. It was shown that prostatic tissue contains this enzyme in high concentration. Elevated serum levels of acid phosphates are seen in patients with prostatic carcinoma that has metastasized. One half to three fourths of patients with carcinoma of the prostate that has e...

Background: In the present investigation radiation and cadmium induced biochemical changes in the kidney of Swiss albino mice have been studied. Materials and Methods: For this purpose, adult male Swiss albino mice (6-8 weeks old) were divided into four groups. Group I (sham-irradiated), Group II (treated with CdCl2 solution 20 ppm), Group III (irradiated with 1.25, 2.5 and 5.0 Gy gamma rays), ...

before, though such high values are seen in cases of myeloproliferative diseases (Bases, 1962). The prostate was normal clinically and at post-mortem examination. Another cause of raised serum acid phosphatase is an extremely high level of alkaline phosphatase activity in the serum (Woodard, 1959), some of which persists even at an acid pH. The alkaline phosphatase, however, was never found to ...

In the wild-type and B-mutant hyphae of Schizophyllum commune, acid phosphatase activity was found in association with vacuoles, lipid bodies, and endoplasmic reticulum. Small granules containing acid phosphatase also occurred in mitochondria and along the nuclear envelope. Both ultrastructural and biochemical studies indicated greater acid phosphatase activity in the B-mutant than in the wild-...

A partially purified bovine cortical bone acid phosphatase, which shared similar characteristics with a class of acid phosphatase known as tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, was found to dephosphorylate phosphotyrosine and phosphotyrosyl proteins, with little activity toward other phosphoamino acids or phosphoseryl histones. The pH optimum was about 5.5 with p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substra...