The effect of cow's milk protein (CMP) challenge on the levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the upper jejunal mucosa and the serum were studied in 25 infants clinically suspected to have cow's milk allergy. Following CMP provocation 3 groups were identified. Group 1 consisted of 10 infants who had clinical and histological reaction to CMP challenge. All 10 infants had significant depletion ...

Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) films cografted with vinylene carbonate (VCA) and Nvinyl-N-methylacetamide (VIMA) were studied as a matrix for the immobilization of the enzyme alkaline phosphatase (ALP) either by direct fixation or by inserting spacers. When water-soluble alkyldiamines such as diaminoethylene, diaminobutane, diethylenetriamine, and diaminohexane were used as spacers between the...

Pet Ether, Chloroform, and Methanol extracts of roots of Blue and White flowered varieties of Clitoria ternatea (CT) were studied for their hepatoprotective potential against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced hepatotoxicity in rats. The hepatoprotective activity was assessed using various biochemical parameters like serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamate pyruvate tr...

The goal of this study was to reassess serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) as tumor marker in osteosarcoma. We retrospectively examined serum ALP levels at diagnosis, every therapeutic step (neoadjuvant chemotherapy, surgery, and adjuvant chemotherapy), metastasis, and follow-up and analyzed the role of ALP as tumor marker in 210 osteosarcomas. The diagnostic performances of ALP were validated wit...

Background and objective: Periodontal disease is one of the common inflammatory diseases with complex etiology and is multifactorial in origin.Several enzymes are evaluated for the early diagnosis of periodontal disease. The enzyme ALP plays a role in bone metabolism. In the periodontium, ALP is very important enzyme as it is part of normal turnover of periodontal ligament, root cementum, and b...

Introduction and Aim: The number of patients suffering from end stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis has increased worldwide. Mineral bone disorders (MBD) commonly occur in ESRD patients. MBD is classified into high turnover low disease. Biochemical parameters play a key role classifying MBD. Data on adynamic (ABD) hemodialysis (HD) sparse. aim to study the prevalence biochemical profi...

Bone scan (BS) and serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) concentration are used to detect bone metastasis in malignancy, although whole-body fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is being used increasingly. But BS is still used for the detection of metastatic bone lesion. So we compared the usefulness of PET/CT, BS, and serum ALP in detecting bone metastases ...

Background : The bones are the most common site of distant metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Few prognostic markers are available to guide treatment and sub-classify patients with bone metastasis. We aimed to identify the prognostic value of pretreatment serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and plasma Epstein-Barr virus DNA (EBV DNA) in patients with bone-only metastasis. Methods : A to...

BACKGROUND Adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) nephrotoxicity is well known at a dose of 60 mg day(-1) or 120 mg day(-1). However, renal toxicity at a low-dose of 10 mg ADV for HBV-infected patients is not fully described. Our objective was to analyse the clinical features and outcomes of ADV-related Fanconi's syndrome in the Chinese population. METHODS This was a retrospective study. A total of 35 pati...