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Three high-performance cows in lactation were tested each for the effects of two kinds of infusion each, 500 ml of Tetamag-2 solution (60 g of calcium gluconate and 60 g of magnesium adipate) and 500 ml of Calcimag (100 g of calcium gluconate and 20 g of magnesium adipate), upon the levels of calcium, magnesium, Pa, potassium, and sodium as well as upon the activities of aspartate-aminotransferase, leucine-aminopeptidase, and alkaline phosphatase in blood serum and upon glucose levels in blood plasma. Migration of calcium out of blood plasma was found to take place at much higher rate than that of magnesium. Infusion of Pa and glucose was followed soon by some temporary drop of values. No directional effects were recordable from potassium and sodium. Aspartate-aminotransferase activity did not change in response to transfusion. Intravenous infusion of Tetamag-2 solution caused strong temporary rise in magnesium concentration and, consequently, activation of leucine-aminopeptidase.
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PMID:[Modification of blood serum mineral levels and aspartate aminotransferase, leucine aminopeptidase and alkaline phosphatase activity and plasma in glucose levels in healthy cattle by Ca-Mg-containing solutions]. 722 93

The levels of various compounds in blood serum and blood plasma were tested in 14 heads of cattle with hypomagnesiaemia (x = 0.76 +/- 0.29 mg/100 ml), prior to and following infusion of 500 ml of a calcium-magnesium solution (containing 60 g of magnesium adipate and 60 g of calcium gluconate). Concomitant hypocalcaemia (6.1 mg/100 ml) was recordable only from one animal. Most of the potassium as well as all Pa and protein values in blood serum were physiologically normal, while sodium ws somewhat reduced. The glucose level in blood plasma was increased in the animal with concomitant hypocalcaemia and in one animal with poor recovery potential. The drops in magnesium and calcium levels in blood serum, following infusion, in cattle with hypomagnesiaemia was very similar to that in clinically intact cattle. Aspartate-aminotransferase and creatinine-phosphokinase activities of the serum were increased in all cattle, but leucine-aminopeptidase activity in only some of them. The activity of alkaline phosphatase of the blood serum was physiologically normal.
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PMID:[Blood mineral (Ca, Mg, Na K, Pa) levels and aspartate aminotransferase, leucine aminopeptidase, creatine phosphokinase and alkaline phosphatase activity and blood glucose levels in cattle with hypomagnesemia prior to and following infusion of a 500 ml solution containing 60 g of Mg adipate and 60 g of Ca gluconate]. 722 94

Hamster intestinal hydrolase activities were studied after pancreatic duct ligation for periods of 5, 7, 10, 15 and 30 days. From the 7th to the 10th day, maltase and sucrase were significantly increased in the jejunoileum. Higher levels were observed on day 7 in the duodenum for all the brush-border enzyme activities (maltase, sucrase, aminopeptidase, alkaline phosphatase). Intestinal lysozyme significantly increased from the 5th to the 15th day with a maximal level at the 7th day. The increased levels of brush-border enzymes observed here are not in accordance with our description of villous atrophy after pancreatic duct ligation in the hamster. On the other hand, the important increase in lysozyme activity is in good agreement with hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the Paneth cells which we observed during our morphological study. The morphological and biochemical findings on hamster small intestine confirm the effects of exocrine pancreatic secretion both on differentiation and on enzymatic levels of the mucosa. Besides, this experiment agrees with the direct desorbing action of the pancreatic juice on the brush border and suggests another hypothetical mechanism, still worth being investigated, to explain increased brush-border activities in the duodenum and increased levels of lysozyme in the jejunoileum.
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PMID:Effect of pancreatic duct ligation on the hamster intestinal mucosa. Variation of several hydrolases. 722 72

Male and female rabbits were injected intravenously with a single dose of either cefroxadine or cefsulodin or cephaloridine. Quantitative determinations of the activity of two brush border membrane enzymes, aminopeptidase and alkaline phosphatase, were made in homogenates of cortical kidney tissue, in the urine and morphometrically in proximal tubules of cryostat sections. Morphometry was done by classification and enumeration of proximal tubule sections with the same level of enzyme reaction product using a microscopic television analysis system. By comparison with the control values, no changes were detectable 24 h after the injection of up to 1.2 g cefroxadine or cefsulodin per kg body weight. By contrast, after 300 mg/kg cephaloridine, the concentrations of the two enzymes were decreased in a large number of proximal tubules, i.e. the brush border membranes, and concomitantly cell degeneration and necrosis took place. Alkaline phosphatase activity in sections and tissue homogenates was reduced to a greater extent than aminopeptidase activity. A corresponding, significant increase in enzymic activity in the urine was only demonstrable in respect of aminopeptidase. The classification of proximal tubules in sections by television analysis on the basis of alkaline phosphatase reaction product concentration appears to be a reliable measure for detecting and quantifying toxic effects on proximal tubules of kidney.
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PMID:Quantification of nephrotoxicity in rabbits by automated morphometry of alkaline phosphatase stained kidney sections. 723 47

Routine histological staining techniques form the basis of a forensic age estimation of human skin wounds and the determination of vitality is aided by the detection of neutrophilic granulocytes which appear earliest about 20-30 min after wounding. A clear granulocyte infiltration and a significant increase in the number of macrophages indicates a post infliction interval of at least several hours. Macrophages containing incorporated particles such as lipophages, erythrophages or siderophages appear earliest at a wound age of 2-3 days similarly to extracellular deposits of hemosiderin, whereas the rarely detectable iron-free pigment hematoidin and spot-like lymphocytic infiltrates in the granulation tissue appear approximately one week or more after wounding. A complete reepithelialization of surgically treated and primarily healing human skin lesions can be expected earliest 5 days after wound infliction and the absence of a complete new epidermal layer indicates a survival time of less than 21 days. Enzyme histochemical methods allow a wound age differentiation especially in the range of a few hours. An increase in nonspecific esterases can be observed earliest approximately 1 hour after wounding followed by other enzymes such as acid phosphatase (approximately 2 h), ATPase (approximately 4 h), aminopeptidase (approximately 4 h) or alkaline phosphatase (approximately 4 h). Positive results, however, cannot be regularly found. Therefore, the detection of reactive changes is useful for a wound age estimation whereas negative findings, which in general must be interpreted with caution, can provide information only in a limited number of histological parameters.
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PMID:Histological and enzyme histochemical parameters for the age estimation of human skin wounds. 752 45

We tested the diagnostic sensitivity of various urinary analytes for detecting cadmium-induced nephropathy at an early stage. We investigated 73 healthy persons (control group 1) and individuals exposed to cadmium, either environmentally (n = 36, risk group 2) or occupationally (n = 62, exposed group 3). All data were related to limits of the central 95% reference intervals of the control group. The serum creatinine and ribonuclease values, indicators of the glomerular filtration rate, were not different in the three groups. In the exposed persons (group 3), proximal tubular indicators (low-M(r) proteins lysozyme, ribonuclease, retinol-binding protein, and alpha 1-microglobulin) were more often increased than the glomerular indices (higher-M(r) proteins transferrin, IgG, and albumin). Both the low-M(r) proteins and tubular enzymes were differently altered in their excretion rates. Alanine aminopeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase increased even in the risk group 2. alpha 1-Microglobulin was increased in the exposed persons whose cadmium excretion was < 5 mumol/mol creatinine. The combined determination of alpha 1-microglobulin and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase exceeded the corresponding upper reference limits in 30% of group 2 and 39% of group 3. We recommend screening for these two analytes to detect cadmium-induced renal dysfunction at an early stage.
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PMID:Urinary proteins and enzymes as early indicators of renal dysfunction in chronic exposure to cadmium. 848 64

We describe the changes of several brush-border enzymatic activities in different subpopulations of epithelial cells, separated sequentially from the villus tip-to-crypt axis of the small intestine, induced by deprivation of dietary nucleotides for different periods of time in adult rats. Deprivation of dietary nucleotides lead to a decrease in the content and specific activity of alkaline phosphatase, leucine-aminopeptidase, maltase, sucrase and lactase in the villus tip, but had little effect on the crypt zone. The effect of the nucleotide deprivation on the enzymatic activity progressively increased towards the tip of the villus. Since these enzymes are maturation markers of the intestinal cells, these results support the idea that dietary nucleotides affect the maturation status of small-intestine epithelium.
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PMID:Maturation status of small intestine epithelium in rats deprived of dietary nucleotides. 772 91

The effect of Misoprostol (0.3 mg/kg b.w., orally for four weeks) on the brush border membrane enzyme activity, is studied in growing rats. Misoprostol enhanced stomach and intestine relative weights as well as the mucosal weight of the duodenum and proximal jejunum. In treated rats, disaccharidases, alkaline phosphatase and aminopeptidase enzyme activity were measured in brush border purified fraction throughout the small intestine. Sucrase, maltase, aminopeptidase and alkaline phosphatase specific activities were significantly increased along the small intestine. In the proximal jejunum, sucrase (62%; p < 0.001) and maltase (42%; p < 0.01) activities were significantly greater. Sucrase activity was also significantly (p < 0.001) increased by about 103% in the distal jejunum. There was also a significant (p < 0.05) increment of 32% in the duodenal and ileal alkaline phosphatase activity after treatment. Similarly, aminopeptidase activity was significantly (p < 0.05) higher in duodenum (67%) and jejunum (24%). In conclusion, Misoprostol appreciably increased the ability of the small intestine to perform its digestive functions although further studies will be necessary to examine the cellular and molecular mechanism(s) which may be responsible for these effects.
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PMID:Stimulation of brush border enzyme activity along the rat small intestine by misoprostol. 780 Sep 17

Although lymphocytes are CD-13-negative and therefore should not express the ectoenzyme aminopeptidase N (AP-N), there have been a number of reports suggesting the presence of a cell-surface aminopeptidase with many similarities to AP-N. We have determined aminopeptidase activity with 4-methyl-7-coumarylamide (NMec) derivatives of alanine, leucine, lysine and arginine in Jurkat cells (a human T-cell lymphoma line) and in HL60 cells (a CD-13-positive myeloid leukaemia line) and compared the activities with those of purified pig AP-N and human renal microvillar membranes. Jurkat cell aminopeptidase activity doubled on disrupting the cells and the sensitivity to amastatin increased. When the cells were fractionated only 4% of the activity was recovered in the membrane fraction, compared with 87% recovery for alkaline phosphatase. The profile of activities for intact Jurkat cells was Leu > Ala > Lys > Arg, changing in the cytosolic fraction to Lys > or = Arg > Leu = Ala; the profiles for intact HL60 cells and AP-N were identical, namely Ala > Leu > Arg > Lys. The Km values for the hydrolysis of Ala-NMec and Leu-NMec by Jurkat cells were 65 microM and 11 microM, in each case some 6-fold lower than those for AP-N. The pH-activity curves for the hydrolysis of Ala-NMec by Jurkat cells and human renal microvillar membranes were displaced by almost 1 pH unit and the activity was not sensitive to the anionic composition of the buffers. However, a 3-fold activation of the cytosolic activity by 0.1 M NaCl was observed with Arg-NMec as substrate. With Ala-NMec as substrate, the sensitivity of the aminopeptidase activity to inhibitors increased markedly after disrupting the cells, but still differed from that observed with purified pig AP-N; the concentrations giving 50% inhibition were as follows (values for AP-N in parentheses): amastatin. 28 nM (150 nM); bestatin, 12 microM (43 microM), probestin, 100 nM (< 10 nM), puromycin, 30 microM (> 1 mM). Anion exchange chromatography on Mono Q revealed two activities: that of peak I preferentially hydrolysed Arg-NMec, was activated by NaCl and was insensitive to amastatin; while that of peak II was strongly inhibited by amastatin and had a broad specificity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:The aminopeptidase activity in the human T-cell lymphoma line (Jurkat) is not at the cell surface and is not aminopeptidase N (CD-13). 790 64

We tested the effect of dietary fat on the lipid composition and hydrolase activity of jejunal brush border membranes in piglets. Eighteen 5-wk-old piglets were divided into three groups and for 4 wk fed either an unsaturated low fat diet (3.2% corn oil), an unsaturated high fat diet (17.2% corn oil) or a saturated high fat diet (2.2% corn oil + 15% tallow). Brush border membranes were prepared from the jejunal mucosa and analyzed for cholesterol, phospholipid and fatty acids. The activities of sucrase-isomaltase, lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, maltase-glucoamylase, aminopeptidase and alkaline phosphatase were measured. Lactase-phlorizin hydrolase isoforms were immunopurified and separated by SDS-PAGE, and their relative proportions were measured by densitometry. The activities of the disaccharidases and alkaline phosphatase, but not aminopeptidase, were greater in animals fed the saturated high fat diet than in animals fed the unsaturated high fat diet. The fatty acid composition of the membranes generally reflected the composition of the diet. Correlation analysis demonstrated that the phospholipid, fatty acid and cholesterol compositions of the membranes were associated with the differences in brush border hydrolase activity.
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PMID:Jejunal brush border hydrolase activity is higher in tallow-fed pigs than in corn oil-fed pigs. 793 9


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