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Clinical significance of serum high-molecular-mass alkaline phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase-lipoprotein-X complex, and intestinal variant alkaline phosphatase.

This paper is a study to identify the clinical significance of high-molecular-mass alkaline phosphatase (ALP:E:C..3.1.3.1.), ALP-lipoprotein-X complex (LP-X) and intestinal variant ALP. We used cellulose acetate and agarose gels and techniques including wheat germ lectin, cetavlon-diethyl ether, thermostatability, neuraminidase and L-phenylalanine to improve the electrophoretic separation of the alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes. Patients' serum samples were electrophoresed from a diverse group of individuals ill with cholestasis, neoplastic disease metastatic to the liver, hepatocellular carcinoma, cirrhosis, diabetes mellitus, and chronic renal disease. Agarose gels provided better separation of ALP isoenzymes than cellulose acetate gels. The results also indicated that high-molecular mass ALP is present in patient's serum in conditions associated with cholestasis especially caused by hepatic malignancy. High-molecular mass ALP was frequently found to co-exist with the liver isoenzyme and LP-XALP complex. The intestinal variant was identified in patients with malignancy, cirrhosis, chronic renal disease and diabetes mellitus. Intestinal ALP coexisted concomitantly with a variant intestinal ALP. Intestinal variant ALP is most likely composed of intestinal ALP attached to a cellular membrane-binding domain, or may be an artifact produced by neuraminidase incubation.

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Quantitative changes in acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase activity in rat liver after experimentally induced cholestasis.

Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase activities were analyzed cytophotometrically in cryostat sections of rat liver up to 8 weeks after ligation and transsection of the common bile duct. Ligation resulted in cholestasis and induced alterations in both localization and activity of the enzyme investigated. The cellular distribution but not the activity of acid phosphatase changed in liver parenchyma. In control liver, the final reaction product was localized as discrete granules in the bile canalicular region of hepatocytes. The final reaction product was precipitated more diffusely within the cytoplasm after induction of cholestasis, most probably due to increased fragility of lysosomal membranes. In control liver, alkaline phosphatase activity was low and localized in the bile canalicular plasma membranes only. The total parenchymal activity increased threefold after the induction of cholestasis and is considered to be a compensatory mechanism in order to enhance the excretion of bile salts from hepatocytes. 5'-Nucleotidase was present at the bile canalicular and sinusoidal surfaces of plasma membranes of hepatocytes in control liver; total activity in pericentral areas was significantly higher than in periportal areas. Induction of cholestasis resulted in higher total activity and redistribution of the activity over all three surfaces of the plasma membranes, whereas heterogeneity over the different zones of the acinus disappeared. The appearance of the enzyme at lateral plasma membranes is suggested to be related to the formation of new sites for bile salt transport out of the hepatocytes. With respect to all three enzymes studied, alterations of liver parenchymal cells due to a disturbed bile transport were already established during the first week of cholestasis.

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Cytochemical localization of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, and nonspecific esterase in perivascular cells of cartilage canals in the developing mouse epiphysis.

Cytochemical localization of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP), tartrate-sensitive acid phosphatases (TSAP), alkaline phosphatase, and nonspecific esterase was used to characterize perivascular cells within cartilage canals. In the distal femoral epiphyses of 5- to 7-day-old mice, three stages of canal development can be distinguished, and at each developmental stage different perivascular cells were present with morphological characteristics of degradative cells. Vacuolated cells resembling macrophages, fibroblastic cells, and chondroclasts were present adjacent to the matrix in superficial, intermediate, and deep canals, respectively. In order to characterize these perivascular cells cytochemically, nonspecific esterase and TSAP staining was used to identify macrophages, alkaline phosphatase staining was used to identify fibroblastic cells, and TRAP staining was used to identify chondroclasts. There were no cells present in the canals at any developmental stage that were positive for TSAP or strongly positive for nonspecific esterase, placing doubt on the identity of the vacuolated cells as macrophages. Alkaline phosphatase-positive perivascular cells were present in the intermediate and deep canals adjacent to matrix containing alkaline phosphatase-positive chondrocytes. These alkaline phosphatase-positive cells were found in the same location within canals as the fibroblastic cells. Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase was localized in chondroclasts at the tips of deep canals but was not confined exclusively to chondroclasts. Except for the very early stage of canal development prior to chondrocyte hypertrophy, TRAP-positive cells were present at the tips of superficial and intermediate canals as well as at the tips of the deep canals.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Acid Phosphatase↗

The use of multifunctional adsorbents to purify membrane-bound phosphatases from Zymomonas mobilis. Purification of acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and ATPase.

The purification of detergent-solubilized membrane-bound phosphatases from Zymomonas mobilis using novel adsorbents is described. The prepared adsorbents have a hydrophobic core with functional groups attached. These functional groups may either increase or decrease the hydrophobicity of the adsorbent, or participate in other forms of interactions. Adsorption of acid phosphatase (ACP), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and ATPase to these adsorbents was salt-promoted. Desorption was achieved by decreasing the salt concentration or by displacement with increasing concentration of Triton X-100. The results indicate that chromatography on multifunctional adsorbents that are predominantly hydrophobic in character is a procedure that can have a general applicability in purification of membrane proteins.

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[Levels of prostate-specific antigen, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and pain in the prediction of bone metastases in patients with newly diagnosed prostatic carcinoma].

In a retrospective analytical study the authors evaluated in 86 patients, mean age 69 years (range 55-85 years), with a newly diagnosed untreated prostate carcinoma the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value of specific prostatic antigen (PSA), acid phosphatase (AP), alkaline phosphatase (AP') and pain in relation to possible affection of bones by secondaries. The authors found a highly negative predictive value for assessment of bone metastases when PSA values were lower than 10 ng/ml (96%), at levels under 20 ng/ml (94%) and a highly positive predictive value at levels higher than 50 ng/ml (97%). When AP and AP' are negative and there is no pain the occurrence of secondaries is of low probability. These results make it possible to differentiate some patients where scintigraphy of the skeleton is not inevitable. This procedure can be applied above all in patients where radical prostatectomy is not indicated.

Acid Phosphatase↗

Influence of 2,4,6-triamino-pyrimidyl-5-azobenzene on the activities of acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase in cell cultures infected with herpes simplex virus type 1.

Treatment of VERO cells with 2,4,6-triamino-pyridimyl-5-azobenzene (10 gamma/ml) one hour after inoculation of herpes simplex virus type 1 limits the influence of the virus infection, consisting in the enchancement of the activities of alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase and LDH (especially of the latter two enzymes) and in changes in the isoenzyme patterns of acid and alkaline phosphatases and of peroxidase. In general the influence of the drug is expressed both by the fact that enzyme levels in homogenates of infected cells become closer to the values recorded in controls, and by modifications in the isoenzyme patterns altered by virus multiplication, making them more similar to those of uninfected, untreated cells.

Acid Phosphatase↗

Isoenzymes of lactate dehydrogenase, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and peroxidase in monkey kidney cell cultures inoculated with herpes virus type 1.

The variation of lactate dehydrogenase, peroxidase, acid and alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes was studied in VERO cells inoculated with infectant and UV-inactivated herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV--1). Infectant HSV--1 induced quantitative and qualitative modifications in isoenzyme patterns within the first 4 hours post inoculation (p.i.). The modifications caused by the UV-inactivated HSV--1 were similar, but appeared 8 hours p.i. The possibility of using isoenzyme modifications as rapid, sensitive and specific biochemical tests for virus detection and differentiation between infectant and inactivated virus is discussed.

Acid Phosphatase↗

[Radiation-induced changes of skin enzyme activity. II. Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase].

After application of solf X-rays with 100, 500 and 1000 R, the activity change of the acid and alcaline phosphatase in the skin of mice has been studied. The studies happened immediatly after the irradiation and at the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th and 16th day. The measurment of the enzyme activity washable out of the skin and remianing in the skin after the washing and the total activity of the skin have been taken up. With the acid phosphatase it would be determined that the quantity washable out of the skin is unusually low; the acitity values of the wash solution increase at the 2nd day after the irradiation in dependence on the applicated dose;at the moment 0 after an irradiation with 1000 R, a significative activity increase in the wash solution appears; the homogenate activity at the 2nd day only gets a significative activity increase after the irradiation with 500 R. The alcaline phosphatase was measurable in the wash solution at no moment of the measurement. However, the alcaline phosphatase has been decreased in the homogenate with few exceptions.

Acid Phosphatase↗

Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and prostate-specific antigen--usefulness in the diagnosis of metastatic disease and follow-up.

PSA and PAP are effective immunohistologic markers for prostatic cancer metastases. PSA seems to be more sensitive than PAP for diagnosing metastatic prostatic cancer. Simultaneous determination of PSA and PAP yields an additive clinical value in diagnosing and follow-up of prostatic cancer. The prognostic reliability for disease progression (recurrence and treatment response) seems to be PSA greater than PAP greater than AcidP greater than Alkal. P.

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