Human erythrocyte G6PD activity was measured in more than 500 subjects in Isfahan, Iran, and the percent of enzyme deficiency for males and females are reported. Some properties of the abnormal enzyme is compared with its normal counterpart. Apparent Km values of glucose 6-phosphate for the variant and normal enzymes were 37 and 101 microM, respectively. The variant enzyme was less resistant to...

Cultured skin fibroblasts from patients deficient for the enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (PRT) activity show very low but nevertheless significant levels of apparent PRT enzyme despite absence of detectable activity (<0.004% of normal) in erythrocytes of the same patients. In fibroblasts this mutant enzyme is more heat labile than the normal enzyme. These findings indicat...

the restriction enzyme ava ii detects the base change of the intervening sequence ii (ivs ii) which is used as one of the markers of β-globin gene polymorphism. this study was conducted to determine the frequency of the ava ii site on the β-globin gene among normal people and patients with sickle cell syndrome (scs) in iran. dna fragments containing the ivs ii region of the β-globin gene from 3...

Ferritin was determined in the sera of 631 healthy neonates, infants, children and adolescents (age range 5 days to 18 years), using the IMx from Abbott Laboratories. The applied test was a microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA). The proband collective was divided into 9 age groups, and each group into males and females. In accordance with the recommendations of the International Federation of...

The restriction enzyme Ava II detects the base change of the intervening sequence II (IVS II) which is used as one of the markers of β-globin gene polymorphism. This study was conducted to determine the frequency of the Ava II site on the β-globin gene among normal people and patients with sickle cell syndrome (SCS) in Iran. DNA fragments containing the IVS II region of the β-globin gene from...

Lysosomal enzyme release from PMN exposed to STZ was examined using PMN from normal and CGD donors. Normal PMN showed an increase of extracellular lysosomal enzyme activity and a marked reduction of totol (extra-plus intra-cellular) enzyme activity after phagocytosis. On the other hand, in PMN from CGD patients, such a reduction of total enzyme activity was not observed and much more enzyme tha...

objective: in peripheral blood polymorphonuclear and mononuclear cells nitric oxide (no) could be synthesized by an enzyme called inducible no synthase (inos). inos gene (nos2a) is located on chromosome 17 at position 17q11.2-q12. no is released during inflammatory responses. in the present studies the frequency of nos2a gene polymorphisms and their effects on no production were investigated in...

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