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Query: EC:3.1.3.1 (alkaline phosphatase)
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Lameness in a group of 5- to 12-month-old calves was found to be clinically, radiographically, and pathologically associated with abnormal bone development of the distal growth plates of the metacarpus and metatarsus. Copper concentrations in serum and liver were low. Serum calcium, phosphorus, and alkaline phosphatase values were normal. In pasture forage samples, sulfate, zinc, and molybdenum concentrations were high, whereas copper, calcium, and phosphorus concentrations were normal. Red blood cell (RBC) counts and hemoglobin values were within normal limits. Radiographic findings included a widened zone of cartilage and lipping of the medial and lateral areas of the physeal plate. Histologic findings included focal widenings of the growth plate consisting of tongues of uncalcified cartilage.
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PMID:Abnormal bone development and lameness associated with secondary copper deficiency in young cattle. 114 Oct 41

Tarsal degenerative joint disease (DJD) in 27 cattle was classified as primary or secondary based on age, joint conformation defects, faulty hindlimb alignment, or history of trauma to the affected joint(s). Results of blood and synovial fluid analysis for cattle affected with primary or secondary tarsal DJD were grouped in compilation of data. Cattle with tarsal DJD had significantly (P smaller than 0.01) reduced hemoglobin (Hb) content in comparison to that in control cattle. There was highly significant (P smaller than 0.001) reduction in packed cell volume (PCV). A significant difference was not determined for mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) values of the 2 groups of cattle. Total white blood cell (WBC) counts closely paralleled each other, although mean proportion of neutrophils was significantly (P smaller than 0.05) greater in cattle affected with tarsal DJD, as were mean proportion of lymphocytes (P smaller than 0.02). Synovial fluid samples were analyzed for physical, biochemical, and cytologic properties. Statistical comparisons were made between values determined for arthritic cattle and control cattle. All samples from cattle with tarsal DJD were transudative. Opacity and flocculation were attributed to the presence of cartilaginous fragments and fibrils. There was significant correlation between increased relative viscosity (RV) and higher grades of mucinous precipitate quality (MPQ; r = +0.294, P smaller than 0.05) for all cattle. Mean alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity for arthritic cattle was significantly (P smaller than 0.001) reduced, as was the mean activity for lactic dehydrogenase (LDH; P smaller than 0.05). The mean aldolase (ALD) activity for arthritic cattle was increased, whereas mean activity values for glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (GOT) and glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT) were reduced. Samples from arthritic cattle had reduced total leukocyte counts and significantly (P smaller than 0.05) increased proportion of macrophages in comparison to the values in control cattle.
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PMID:Tarsal degenerative joint disease in cattle: blood and synovial fluid changes. 114 40

Biochemical findings on blood samples from 102 pregnant women in four age groups, 12-17, 18-19, 20-24, and 25-32, are reported. Samples represent 8 antepartum periods of 4 weeks each and 3 postpartum periods over 6 weeks. Blood analyses were carried out for hemoglobin, plasma iron, plasma total protein, glucose, plasma alkaline phosphatase, plasma ascorbic acid, plasma vitamin A and carotene, erythrocyte transketolase as a measure of thiamine status, plasma cholesterol, plasma lipid phosphorus, plasma total fatty acids, and triglyceride fatty acids. For the most part, means of these nutrients were in acceptable ranges for all age groups. Although adolescents had better levels than anticipated, the two younger groups on several occasions had means significantly lower than those of the two older groups, indicating that they needed greater nutritional support during pregnancy than older women.
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PMID:Comparison of the nutritional status of pregnant adolescents with adult pregnant women. I. Biochemical findings. 116 67

Studied were the changes in the values of some hematologic indices (hemoglobin, erythrocytes, leukocites) as well as the values of some biochemical (total protein and protein fractions, urea, total lipids, bilirubin, inorganic, phosphorus calcium) and enzyme factors (lactatedehydrogenase, alkaline and acid phosphatase, aldolase, amino transferrases, creatinephosphokinase) in geese prior to and after experimental infection of Borrelia anserina. It was found that in the peak stage of spirochetemia the content of hemoglobin, total lipids, and calcium, the percent of albumins and alfa-globulins, and the activity of the alkaline phosphatase in the blood decreased. The prealbumin fraction of the serum protein was completely reduced. The activity of the lactatedehydrogenase, acid phosphatase, amino transferrases, and aldolase showed higher values that were statistically significant, while the activity of the creatinephosphokinase rose to a slighter extent. The urea, bilirubin, inorganic phosphorus, and the alfa-, beta-, and gamma-globulins correlated positively with the course of the infection.
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PMID:[Biochemical changes in the blood of geese infected with Borrelia anserina]. 117 37

Chronic experiments were carried out with 62 guinea pigs (31 test and 31 control animals) which were given dipterex orally for 60 days at the rate of 100 mg/kg each. The effect was followed up of dipterex on the bactericidal properties of the blood, the phagocytic activity of some organs of the reticulo-endothelial system, the serum cholinesterase, the alkaline phosphatase, the hemoglobin and hematocrit values of the blood, and the proteinogram of the blood serum. A neglible drop of the gamma-globin fraction of the serum and the phagocytic activity of the immobile cells of the RES of the spleen and liver was found. The hemoglobin content decreased by 13.5 per cent, while the hematocrit value remained unchanged. At the amount given above dipterex suppressed by 50 per cent the activity of the serum cholinesterase, and increased by 36 per cent that of the alkaline phosphatase.
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PMID:[Effect of subtoxic doses of dipterex on guinea pigs]. 125 52

Thirty patients are described who developed jaundice during the course of severe bacterial infection. Although the infecting organism was variable, as was the site of infection, the patients were generally ill and pyrexial. The group had a very high mortality rate (43%). A positive blood culture was obtained in 11 patients. Biochemical abnormalities noted were those of an increased concentration of conjugated bilirubin in the serum with only a modest increase in alkaline phosphatase and transaminase levels. Serum cholesterol was found to be normal. The mean serum urea level was significantly elevated, as were creatine phosphokinase and lactic dehydrogenase. Most patients exhibited a neutrophil leukocytosis and an elevated sedimentation rate, and the mean hemoglobin level was low. Liver histology was studied in 13 patients. There was evidence of mild bile stasis in 5 and moderate bile stasis in 2. Findings were otherwise nonspecific and were characterized by fatty change and/or inflammatory cells in the portal areas. There was no correlation between degree or duration of juandice and prognosis, although all patients who died remained jaundiced until death. It is suggested that this syndrome is not one of true cholestasis in that all biliary substances were not shown to be elevated in the serum, but that it is rather a selective defect in the excretion of conjugated bilirubin.
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PMID:Jaundice in severe bacterial infection. 127 54

We sought to determine if there were any differences in the results of clinical laboratory tests between blood samples collected from the orbital venous plexus and the posterior vena cava of adult male rats. Thirty healthy adult male Sprague Dawley rats were anesthetized by ether inhalation, and blood samples were collected successively from the orbital venous plexus (OVP) and the posterior vena cava (PVC) for hematologic (n = 10), serum chemistry (n = 10), and coagulation (n = 10) analyses. The prothrombin and partial thromboplastin times of samples from the OVP were prolonged (17% and 288%, respectively) when compared with samples from the PVC. Respective hematologic biases were as follows: red blood cell count (7%), hemoglobin (6%), hematocrit (5%), mean corpuscular volume (-3%), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (-1%), mean corpuscular hemoglobin content (1%), white blood cell count (13%), and platelet count (-7%). Respective serum chemistry biases were as follows: sorbitol dehydrogenase (-7%), glucose (-7%), blood urea nitrogen (-10%), creatinine (-2%), total protein (4%), albumin (2%), globulin (9%), alkaline phosphatase (5%), lactate dehydrogenase (-6%), aspartate aminotransferase (-5%), alanine aminotransferase (-2%), total bilirubin (0%), direct bilirubin (0%), magnesium (-17%), sodium (4%), potassium (0), chloride (4%), calcium (-2%), phosphorous (-17%), cholesterol (3%), triglycerides (24%), creatinine kinase (-8%), 5'nucleotidase (0%), and total bile acids (4%). For hematologic testing, there were no biologically significant differences between samples collected from the OVP and PVC. The coagulation times and serum Mg and P showed biologically significant differences between samples collected from the OVP and PVC.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effect of bleeding site on clinical laboratory testing of rats: orbital venous plexus versus posterior vena cava. 132 Jan 64

Twenty-seven of 152 patients (18%) with progressing hormone resistant prostate cancer had normal serum levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA less than or equal to 10 micrograms l-1), when referred for secondary treatment. PSA was significantly correlated with the extent of skeletal metastases (R: 0.35) and the levels of hemoglobin (R: -0.19) and serum alkaline phosphatase (R: 0.30). In a multivariate Cox regression analysis the survival of the 152 patients was not correlated with the PSA level but with the patients performance status, the level of hemoglobin, and the time between primary hormone treatment and relapse. The lack of serum PSA to predict survival may be explained by a heterogenous composition of hormone resistant prostate cancer as regards differentiated and/or PSA producing vs undifferentiated and/or PSA non-producing cells.
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PMID:The prognostic significance of prostate specific antigen in metastatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer. 137 59

This study examined the effect of diet-induced, marginal zinc deficiency for 7 wks in 15 men (aged 25.3 +/- 3.3 yrs; mean +/- SD) on selected indices of iron and copper status. The regimen involved low-zinc diets based on egg albumin and soy protein with added phytate and calcium such that mean [phytate]/[Zn] and [phytate] X [Ca]/[Zn] molar ratios were 209 and 4116, respectively, for 1 wk, followed by 70 and 2000, respectively, for 6 wks. Subjects were then repleted with 30 mg Zn/d for 2 wks. Plasma copper, Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn-SOD) activity in plasma and red blood cells (RBC), hemoglobin, hematocrit, and serum ferritin were determined weekly on fasting blood samples. Significant reductions (p less than 0.05) after 7 wks in RBC Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (49.5 +/- 7.2 vs 33.6 +/- 6.3 U/mg Hb) and serum ferritin (69.2 +/- 38.7 vs 53.8 +/- 33.7 micrograms/L) occurred; no comparable decline was noted for plasma Cu, hemoglobin, or hematocrit. Significant (p less than 0.05) but less consistent changes were also observed in plasma superoxide dismutase activity. None of the changes were associated with the decreases in plasma, urinary and hair zinc concentrations, and alkaline phosphatase activity in RBC membranes. Results indicate that the biochemical iron and copper status of the subjects was marginally impaired, probably from the dietary regimen that induced marginal zinc deficiency.
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PMID:Indices of iron and copper status during experimentally induced, marginal zinc deficiency in humans. 138 39

Fischer 344 rats were exposed to three concentrations of exhaust generated by an M85 methanol-fueled engine (methanol with 15% gasoline) without catalyst for 8 h/d, 7 d/wk for 7, 14, 21, or 28 d. Concentration- and time-dependent yellowing of the fur was prominent in all treated groups. Concentration-dependent increases in the erythrocyte count, hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, formaldehyde in plasma, and carboxyhemoglobin in the erythrocytes, and decrease in serum alkaline phosphatase activity were seen after all exposure periods. Histopathologically, lesions were found in the nasal cavity and lungs after 7 d of exposure. Squamous metaplasia of the respiratory epithelium of level 1 (level of the posterior edge of the upper incisor teeth) lining of the nasoturbinate and/or maxilloturbinate and infiltration of neutrophils into the submucosa, and decreases of Clara cells in the terminal bronchiolus and of cilia in the bronchiolar epithelium, were observed in the high-concentration group (carbon monoxide, 94 ppm; formaldehyde, 6.9 ppm; methanol, 17.9 ppm; nitrogen oxides, 52.7 ppm; nitrogen dioxide, 10.6 ppm). The histopathological extents of several lesions increased slightly with the exposure time. Slight squamous metaplasia and hyperplasia of the respiratory epithelium at level 1 were also observed in the medium-concentration group (one in three of the high-concentration group). No histopathological changes were found in the olfactory epithelium of the nasal cavity. In the low-concentration group (one in nine of the high-concentration group), no marked histopathological changes in these organs were observed. These results may suggest that the lesions observed in the nasal cavity of rats exposed to methanol-fueled engine exhaust were mainly caused by formaldehyde, although other components in the exhaust also may have affected nasal cavity and/or lungs to less extent.
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PMID:Toxicity to rats of methanol-fueled engine exhaust inhaled continuously for 28 days. 138 57


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