The vitamin B-6 status of Indonesian children was evaluated by determining their dietary vitamin B-6 intakes, erythrocyte alanine aminotransferase activity coefficients and plasma pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) concentrations. Thirty-eight third-grade elementary school children (ages = 8-9 y) in rural and 39 in urban areas of Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, voluntarily served as subjects. The subjects ...

We evaluated the Kodak Ektachem DT60/DTSC and the Boehringer Mannheim Reflotron for measuring activity concentrations of six enzymes. The Ektachem CVs for low concentrations of aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase were high. As compared with the Ektachem and a routine "wet-chemistry" system, values for aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase were lower as meas...

Liver function and its correlation with bilirubin and hepatic enzymes were evaluated in 30 male chronic asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic alcoholics admitted into the psychiatric hospital for detoxification and treatment of alcoholism. Hypoalbuminemia, lowered prothrombin activity, hypotransferrinemia and hypofibrinogenemia were detected in 32%, 32%, 28%, and 24% of patients, respectively. Trans...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: there have been few studies to examine the effect of magnesium (mg) supplementation on liver enzymes. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of mg supplementation and weight loss on liver enzymes, lipid profile, and fasting blood sugar in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld). materials and methods: this study ...

Freshwater fish Cirrhinus mrigala were exposed to lethal concentration (5 mg/L) for 1,2,3,4 days and sublethal concentration (1 mg/L) for 1,7,14,21 days of cypermethrin to examine the enzymes activity, in functionally three different tissues namely, gill, liver and muscle. Activities of Aspartate aminotransferase (AAT), Alanine aminotransferase (AlAT) and Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) increased...

The neurotransmitter, norepinephrine, and structurally related primary catecholamines inhibited rat hepatic tyrosine transaminase activity (L-tyrosine:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase, EC 2.6.1.5) in vitro. The inhibition was competitive with pyridoxal 5’-phosphate cofactor and an “apparent” I& of 4.0 x 10-e M was determined. (The “apparent” K,,, was 6.6 X 10-T M.) Those amines which were associ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare the haematological and biochemical profiles of eight sighthound breeds. DESIGN Samples were taken from 192 individuals of the sighthound breeds (Whippet, Greyhound, Italian Greyhound, Sloughi, Saluki, Borzoi, Pharaoh Hound and Azawakh). Routine haematological and biochemical examinations were performed and the results were evaluated statistically....

Tyrosine aminotransferase purified from epimastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi displays an additional activity of alanine aminotransferase, absent in all other tyrosine aminotransferases characterized so far. Since the parasite's genome contains a high number of copies of the tyrosine aminotransferase gene, we could not rule out the possibility that two very similar proteins, with changed specifici...