High glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity may contribute to colorectal cancer prevention. Functional polymorphisms are known in the GSTM1, GSTT1, GSTA1 and GSTP1 genes. The influence of these GST polymorphisms and recent fruit and vegetable consumption on GST levels and activity has not been investigated simultaneously in a human population. Also, it is not clear if blood GST activity refle...

The effect of gastrointestinal surgery on serum creatine kinase activity was studied in 30 patients. The MB isoenzyme was demonstrated in sera of 30% of the patients and BB isoenzyme in 23%. MB content varied from 0.8 to 10.3% of the total creatine kinase activity, and the BB content from 0.6 to 18.4%. The CK-BB was probably of gastrointestinal origin, since gastrointestinal tract contains high...

We describe a case of a limb-girdle myopathy presenting with myoglobinuria. A partial deficiency of muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.21) may also have been present. All "muscle-type" serum enzymes were markedly increased (to between 30- and 400-fold their respective upper reference limits) and creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) isoenzyme 2 (CK-MB) was increased 130-fold but was still l...

We assessed the reported presence of creatine kinase-BB isoenzyme in the serum of patients with chronic renal failure. Our study showed that the blood of these patients contains a fluorescent material with an electrophoretic mobility similar to that of the BB isoenzyme on cellulose acetate strips. The fluorescing material is, however, completely distinct from BB isoenzyme and its nature is as y...

The isoenzymic forms of branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase in mitochondria of rat tissues were compared with the better-known cytosolic forms in order to find any regular pattern of expression of these isoenzymes during development. Mitochondria of all tissues examined except brain contained only a type-I isoenzyme differing from the cytosolic type-I isoenzyme in heat stability and acti...

We observed an unexpectedly high incidence of the D-variant placenta! phenotype in Regan isoenzyme-positive sera of cancer patients-. Such D-variant-positive sera exhibit a high degree of inhibition by L-leucine, a phenomenon earlier associated with the Nagao isoenzyme. Unlike normal pla centae, a diffuse phenotype of heat-stable alkaline phosphatase is usually noted in cancer sera containing N...

Both zoonotic and anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) caused by L. major and L. tropica, respectively, are endemic in different parts of Iran. This study was performed to investigate the new changes in epidemiological pattern of CL, and to identify the species of Leishmania and the strains of L. major isolated from different endemic areas of Iran. Seventy-two isolates from 245 samples co...

Isoenzyme profiles of peroxidase [EC 1.11.1.7], superoxide dismutase (SOD)[EC 1.15.1.1] and catalase [EC 1.11.1.6] in the endosperm and roots of wheat seedlings germinated under chronic stress conditions were investigated. Low and high temperature, 0.2 M NaCl and 0.5 M sucrose were applied as stress factors. Germination of seeds in the presence of ABA was used as a dehydration stress confirming...

In serum obtained from 28 women before, during, and after normal labor and delivery, creatine kinase activity was seen to be distinctly elevated immediately after labor and 24 h later, but had returned to normal six weeks later. In most cases the increase was due to the MM isoenzyme and was attributed to skeletal-muscle damage associated with labor. In 15 cases, the BB isoenzyme was observed, a...