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Ultrastructural localization of phosphatases in the testes of the domestic fowl: acid phosphatase and thiamine pyrophosphatase.

ACPase and TPPase activity has been examined in the germinal epithelium of the testes in the domestic fowl. ACPase activity in spermatogonia and spermatocytes was confined to the Golgi complex. In spermatids ACPase activity was seen in the endoplasmic reticulum and nuclear envelope in the phase I and especially in the phase II (the elongating phase). This activity gradually decreased during the next phase III (the elongating phase). This activity gradually decreased during the next phase III, and had disappeared in the final phase IV. The membrane body showed ACPase reaction in the small peripheral vacuoles and cisternal structures surrounding large central vacuoles. ACPase was also present in vesicles surrounding the developing tail. Late spermatids showed an abundance of autophagic vacuoles which had a complex array of ACPase positive delimiting membranes. In Sertoli cells ACPase activity was predominant in the lysosomes. TPPase activity was seen in the cisternae of the Golgi complex in spermatogonia and spermatocytes. In spermatids activity was present in the endoplasmic reticulum during the phase II, but it is lost in later stages. The smaller vacuoles and cisternal structures in the membrane body also showed reaction products. According to the present results it is thought likely that the smaller vacuoles and cisternal structures of the membrane body are of endoplasmic reticulum origin. The autophagic vacuoles in spermatids and the lysosomes of Sertoli cells are considered responsible for the degradation of residual bodies cast off by spermatids.

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Carcinoma of the prostate. II. Serum activity of acid phosphatase, prostatic acid phosphatase, LDH and its isoenzymes.

In 25 patients with carcinoma of the prostate (CaP) T3 and in a comparative group of 18 patients with BPH the serum enzymes of AP, tartrate labile AP, LDH, and iso-LDH were investigated simultaneously in basal conditions and after standardized transrectal prostatic biopsy. AP, PAP as well as LDH were shown to be of small diagnostic aid. The reaction of serum enzyme levels following the standardized prostatic biopsy was the same in both CaP and BPH patients. In studying LDH-isoenzymes, we found that the third fraction was elevated in almost all patients. This change is apparently not of prostatic origin, and we could not attribute it to the concomitant diseases found in some patients.

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