We compared an alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) isoenzyme from a plasma sample of a patient with carcinoma of the lung, who was suspected of having the Regan-type isoenzyme, with placental serum alkaline phosphatase and with tissue preparations from placenta, liver, bone, and intestine. The placental and Regan phosphatases responded similarly to heat treatment and modification by various inhib...

background: vanadium is an important environmental and industrial pollutant. it has a status of reproductive toxicant and is reported to cross placental barrier. objective: the current study was performed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of tiron and its combination with selenium against vanadium induced toxicity in lactating and suckling rats. materials and methods: rats were exposed to vana...

A human term (third trimester) placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP; EC 3.1.3.1) cDNA was isolated from a human placental lambda gt11 cDNA library. The expression library was screened by using rabbit antibodies against PLAP and oligonucleotide probes. DNA sequence analysis of a positive clone with an insert of 2.7 kilobase pairs allowed us to predict the complete amino acid sequence of PLAP (53...

A permanent human neoplastic cell line, DO-s, was established from ascites of a patient with a well-differentiated mucinous cyst-adenocarcinoma of the ovary. This cell line grew as vermiform, floating colonies of epithelial cells in culture. The karyotype of DO-s was of a human female; the chromosome number ranged from 54 to 66 with several abnormalities, mainly trisomy. Epithelial-like charact...

Using immunochemical techniques, alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes were determined in tissue samples of breast carcinomas and carcinomas of the gastrointestinal tract. In breast carcinomas only 19% of the patients expressed significant placental alkaline phosphatase activity, compared with 78% in gastrointestinal tumours. The intestinal isoenzyme was found in 50% of the breast carcinomas and in n...

In this study, by the generation of a specific monoclonal antibody, we identified p75/AIRM1 (for adhesion inhibitory receptor molecule 1), a novel inhibitory receptor that is mostly confined to human natural killer cells. p75/AIRM1 is a 75-kD glycoprotein that, upon sodium pervanadate treatment, becomes tyrosine phosphorylated and associates to src homology 2 domain-bearing protein tyrosine pho...