OBJECTIVE To determine whether serum vitamin D levels are correlated with serum levels of alkaline phosphatase or not. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Multi-centre study, conducted at Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, National Medical Centre and Medicare Hospital, Karachi, from January to October 2009. METHODOLOGY Patients attend...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test the utility of serum alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes determination from patients with renal insufficiency. MATERIAL AND METHODS Serum levels of alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes were determined in a group of 58 patients: 22 of them suffering acute renal insufficiency (ARI) and 36 with chronic renal failure (CRF) undergoing regular hemodialysis, result...

Polysaccharide from the seeds of Plantago asiatica L. has many bioactivities, but few papers report on the structural and rheological characteristics of the alkaline extract. The alkaline extracted polysaccharide was prepared from seeds of P. asiatica L. and named herein as alkaline extracted polysaccharide from seeds of P. asiatica L. (PLAP). Its structural and rheological properties were char...

introduction: this study was performed to establish a complementary method to the diagnosis of complete hydatidiform mole and its differentiation from the other cases of gestational trophoblastic disease by measuring the total (alp) and placental alkaline phosphatase (plap) specific activity. materials and methods: serum and tissue extracts from 13 patients, 13 normal non-pregnant and 30 pregna...

Alkaline phosphatase enzymes are found throughout the living world and fulfil a variety of functions. They have been linked to regeneration, stem cells and biomineralisation in a range of animals. Here we describe the pattern of alkaline phosphatase activity in a spiralian appendage, the operculum of the serpulid polychaete Pomatoceros lamarckii. The P. lamarckii operculum is reinforced by a ca...

Background: Alkaline phosphatase (ALP), (EC 3.1.3.1) is a hydrolase enzyme responsible for removing phosphate groups from various molecules in the body. In humans, ALPis present in all tissues such as liver, bile duct, kidney, bone, and the placenta which detection of its activity is so useful in molecular biology. Pregnancy is associated with normal physiological changes that assist fetal surv...

We have proposed the use of the fluorimetric method with 4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate (4-MUP) specific substrate for the alkaline phosphatase determination in the neutrophil adhesion assay. We provide evidence that the endogenous neutrophil alkaline phosphatase (NAP) activity evaluation is reliable to quantify neutrophil adhesion at a wide range of cell numbers (10(4)-10(6)). The results obta...

the kinetics of hydrogen evolution reaction (her) was studied in 1m naoh at various temperatures (298 to 358 k) on ni-p-c (composite electrodes. the electrochemical efficiency of the electrodes has been evaluated on the basis of electrochemical data obtained from the steady-state polarization tafel curves, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) and cyclic voltammetry (cv) in 1m naoh solut...