Serum and tumor tissue of a patient with neuroblastoma contained an abnormal isoenzyme of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; EC 1.1.1.27), which, on agarose gel electrophoresis, migrated between LDH-2 and LDH-3 with a mobility the same as that of the extra LDH isoenzyme found in normal human erythrocytes. On surgical removal of the tumor, the high total LDH activity (775 U/L) in the serum of the patie...

A single-blind study involving amniotic-fluid samples from 214 pregnancies of known outcome confirms that an electrophoretically distinct isoenzyme of acetylcholinesterase is associated with fetal open neural tube defects. Furthermore, only one of 13 amniotic-fluid samples with false-positive results for alpha-fetoprotein showed the characteristic isoenzyme, indicating that qualitative acetylch...

Creatine kinase (CK; EC 2.7.3.2) isoenzyme BB extracted from brains of rats reportedly undergoes modification at 37 degrees C, leaving an electrophoretic variant that accounts for most of the residual CK activity. This variant, called CK-BB', migrates on electrophoresis similarly to creatine kinase isoenzyme MB. Using electrophoresis and immunoinhibition with antiserum to creatine kinase isoenz...

Five lactate dehydrogenase (LD; L-lactate:NAD oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.127) isoenzymes are demonstrated by electrophoresis in normal human serum. Altered activities of these isoenzymes have been associated with pathological conditions, so that their determination has become a useful diagnostic aid. Abnormal LD-isoenzyme patterns with one and two extra isoenzyme bands have been reported in serum s...

The separation of N-acetyl-beta-D-hexosaminidase isoenzymes from human tissues is used in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of GM(2) gangliosidosis, since in type 1 the A isoenzyme is deficient and in type 2 both the A and B isoenzymes are deficient. Peripheral blood leucocytes are commonly used for these investigations, and the present study demonstrates that, in addition to these two i...

Forty-seven isolates, identified morphologically as Giardia duodenalis, were compared by restriction endonuclease analysis of DNA with hybridization to a non-radiolabeled probe. Seven schizodemes were distinguished, compared to 15 zymodemes identified by isoenzyme electrophoresis. Despite the greater sensitivity of isoenzyme electrophoresis, DNA analysis did detect previously unsuspected variat...

The sperm-specific lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme (LDH-X) appearing in electrophoresis between LDH-3 and LDH-4 is characteristic of human mature testis and spermatozoa. 1,21 Our previous studies have shown that detection of LDH-X by starch gel electrophoresis is quite suitable for forensic demonstration of semen from vaginal swabs. ) This communication reports the successful application of the...

entamoeba histolytica is the etiological agent of invasive amoebiasis, the third leading parasitic cause of mortality in the world. our aim was to find a molecular correlation between a glucosephosphate isomerase zymodeme analyses in e. histolytica zymodemes. it was demonstrated that natural and recombinant glucosephosphate isomerase enzymes of e. histolytica comigrated in the starch gel electr...

In an effort to clarify the issue of potentially false increases in creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) in uremia, we evaluated the CK profile of 84 persons undergoing chronic maintenance hemodialysis. We compared the performance of a new commercial two-site chemiluminometric immunoassay of CK-MB (Magic Lite; Ciba Corning Diagnostics) with that of electrophoresis on agarose gel (C...

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