The activity and presence of isoforms of NADP-dependent malic enzyme (NADP-ME, EC 1.1.1.40) were studied in non-transgenic and transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants containing potyviral gene for helper component protease (HC-pro) and in plants infected by Potato virus Y strain NTN (PVY(NTN)). No significant changes in enzyme activities and isoenzyme pattern were observed due to foreign gene i...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate immunoassay methods for the measurement of serum cardiac creatine kinase isoenzyme (CK-MB) with respect to sensitivity and specificity. The CK-MB electrophoretic assay (Helena Laboratories) was used as the reference. Two principles of immunoassay were included in the evaluation,--immunoinhibition and solid phase separation. The direct immunoinhibition t...

Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAcP) is used as a marker for osteoclasts, which are believed to be derived from phagocytic cells or phagocyte stem cell precursors. To further investigate the relationship between monocytic phagocytes and osteoclasts, acid phosphatase (AcP) activity was measured by three different techniques in human peripheral blood monocytes, monocyte-derived macrophages...

The potential for the non-coding intergenic rDNA spacer (IGS) to DNA fingerprint Giardia duodenalis isolates was investigated. Conserved PCR primers, specific for the flanking large and small rDNA genes, were used to amplify the IGS from 52 in vitro-cultured Giardia isolates. Four distinct IGS-PCR size groups (1.35-1.6 kb) were observed, which correlated closely with the major genetic assemblag...

We compared 19 stocks of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense collected in 1991 and 1994 from Tanzania with representative stocks from other foci of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Zambia, Kenya and Uganda. Stocks were characterized by isoenzyme electrophoresis, restriction fragment length polymorphisms in variant surface glycoprotein genes and random amplification of polymorphic DNA; the banding patt...

A rapid and reproducible method for the electrophoretic separation and quantitation of serum alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes is described. Sera from patients with biopsy proven parenchymal liver diseases and diseases related to increased osteoblastic activity were subjected to electrophoresis using a continuous tris-borate buffer on a five percent polyacrylamide gel. Following electrophoresis, ...

Lactate dehydrogenase (LD) isoenzymes 1, 2, and 3 were prepared from human erythrocytes by sequential ion-exchange chromatography followed by general-ligand (AMP analog) affinity chromatography. Respective yields, purification factors, and specific activities (kU per gram of protein) were 25%, 4394-fold, and 209.7; 40% 4385-fold, and 199.1; and 18%, 7565-fold, and 192.9. The respective preparat...

Rheumatic carditis is the most serious major manifestation of acute rheumatic fever in children. Cardiac Troponin-T (cTnT) is established as a new specific marker of myocardial damage or injury. The present work was carried out to study the value of cTnT as a diagnostic marker of myocardial injury in children with rheumatic carditis, and to compare it to established parameters of myocardial inj...

Results of the "Tandem-E CKMB" immunoenzymometric procedure (y) for creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.9.3.2) were compared with electrophoresis (x) for 160 serum samples from patients suspected of having sustained myocardial infarctions. The results correlated well: y, microgram/L (Tandem assay) = 1.3x-6.3 U/L(electrophoresis) (r = 0.95). CK-MB mass measurement was more stable than enzyme activity afte...

Background & Aim: Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) includes species that have high drug and nutritional values. Considering the importance of the antioxidant enzyme system as an effective factor in increasing the resistance of plants to different environmental stresses, in this research, some biochemical properties of catalase and peroxidase enzymes of rosemary pla...