Correlation of acid phosphatase but not alkaline phosphatase activity with myelination in the developing mouse brain

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzi Bun Ng ◽  
W.Y. Chan ◽  
Patrick P.L. Tam
Blood ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. HAIGHT ◽  
R. J. ROSSITER

Abstract 1. The acid and alkaline phosphatase activity has been determined on a series of suspensions of white cells obtained from both man and the rabbit by several different methods. 2. A statistical analysis of the results shows that for both species the alkaline phosphatase of white cell suspensions is confined chiefly to the polymorphonuclear leukocyte and the acid phosphatase is chiefly in the lymphocyte, although the polymonphonuclear leukocyte contains lesser concentrations of this enzyme also. 3. Although this qualitative distribution was the same for both species studied, quantitatively the rabbit differed from man. The activity of the alkaline phosphatase of the rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocyte was eight times that of the corresponding human cell, while the activity of the acid phosphatase of the human lymphocyte was more than twice that of rabbit lymphocyte.


1950 ◽  
Vol 28e (2) ◽  
pp. 56-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. Colling ◽  
R. J. Rossiter

Many normal cerebrospinal fluids contain an alkaline (pH 9.8) and an acid (pH 4.9) phosphatase. Both the alkaline and the acid phosphatase were significantly increased in the spinal fluids from patients with meningitis or poliomyelitis, but not in the fluids from patients with syphilis. The alkaline phosphatase activity was correlated with both the concentration of protein in the spinal fluid and with the white cell count, whereas the acid phosphatase was correlated with neither. When correction was made for the significant correlation between cell count and protein concentration, the partial correlation between alkaline phosphatase activity and both protein concentration and cell count remained significant statistically. In pathological conditions it appears likely that the alkaline phosphatase is derived partly from the polymorphonuclear leucocytes in the fluid and partly from the blood plasma. The acid phosphatase is probably derived from the lymphocytes of the fluid and possibly also from the blood plasma. It is unlikely that either of these enzymes comes from the substance of the brain or spinal cord. Acid phosphatase would be of more value than alkaline phosphatase as a diagnostic aid, since normal fluids contain much less of this enzyme.


1968 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. N. H. Naqvi ◽  
Shahid H. Ashrafi ◽  
M. A. H. Qadri

AbstractThe acid and alkaline phosphatase activity was measured in the developing egg and in the alimentary canal of aging nymphs as well as adult males and females of different ages. Para-nitrophenol was used as colorimetric standard and disodium p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate. Activity was measured in terms of micromoles of p-nitrophenol liberated from the substrate as a result of enzyme action.Acid phosphatase activity was noticed to increase with the embryonic development and was higher than in the case of alkaline phosphatase. The alkaline phosphatase activity was lowest in the freshly laid egg, but increased more sharply than acid phosphatase during embryonic development.The activity of both the acid and alkaline phosphatases was highest in the first instar and declined gradually to the fifth instar. The activity of acid phosphatase was higher than alkaline phosphatase in all stages except the first instar where it was almost equal. The activity of both the enzymes was higher during the intermoulting period and declined at each moult indicating a hormone–enzyme relationship.In adults, activity of both the enzymes increased up to the maturation period after which the activity gradually decreased. Acid phosphatase activity was generally higher in males whereas alkaline phosphatase activity was generally higher in females. In almost all cases, the acid phosphatase activity was found to be higher than the alkaline phosphatase.


1965 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 793-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Antia ◽  
A. Watt

Evidence has been obtained for acid phosphatase activity (on p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate) at pH 4.8 in cell-free extracts of Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Skeletonema costatum, Cyclotella nana, Monochrysis lutheri, Isochrysis galbana, and Dunaliella tertiolecta grown photo-autotrophically in pure culture. No alkaline phosphatase activity at pH 10.5 was observed.


1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 1964-1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pekkarinen

Intramarsupial glochidia of Anodonta anatina (L.) and Pseudanodonta complanata (Rossmässler) were studied in southern Finland. Material staining positively with periodic acid – Schiff's reagent (PAS), neutral lipid reserves, and acid phosphatase activity have different distributions in the mantle of the two species. Moreover, the mucous covering of the mantle of the two glochidia behaves differently on critical-point drying. The presence of microvilli with alkaline phosphatase activity on the mantle surface and acid phosphatase activity in the mantle cells in both glochidia suggest that the mantle plays a role in nutrient uptake and digestion and possibly also in electrolyte uptake. The primordia of the stomach, digestive diverticula, and intestine, at least in A. anatina glochidia, contain neutral lipids and exhibit acid phosphatase activity: In A. anatina glochidia, a microvillous layer with alkaline phosphatase activity continues from the ventral walls of the lateral pits to the suspected kidney diverticula. In both glochidia, there may be three pairs of rudimentary ganglia, which do not stain with methylene blue. The eight ciliated sense organs of the glochidia are methylene blue- and PAS-positive and they exhibit succinate dehydrogenase and acid phosphatase activity. In each mantle lobe, the enveloping cell of the dorsal ciliary organ is interconnected with those of the ventral triad via a cellular fold or "tract," and the ciliated central cells of the organs send axons towards each other.


2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 669-673
Author(s):  
R Yu Il’ina ◽  
O O Pasynkova ◽  
L R Mukhamedzhanova ◽  
L E Ziganshina

Aim. To study the indicators of bone metabolism in patients of psychiatric clinics on the background of dimephosphone oral intake.Methods. Research was conducted at the Republican Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after V.M. Bekhterev (Kazan). 64 patients (36 men and 28 women) aged 45 to 68 years (mean age 56.8±6.9 years) with various forms of mental disorders taking psychotropic drugs for the period of 3 years and over were examined. Resorption markers were determined - D-pyridinoline in urine, serum tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, and the content of total and ionized serum calcium. All patients were divided into two groups: those who received dimephosphone in the combined systemic therapy and those who did not. The average duration of the dimephosphone administration was 22±4.2 days, the patients undergone on average 2.6±1.44 courses of treatment during 6 months.Results. The activity of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase in psychiatric patients was higher compared with those of the control group. The maximum value was registered in patients who were not taking dimephosphone. The alkaline phosphatase activity was the highest in mentally healthy patients of the control group. In psychiatric patients treated with dimephosphone, alkaline phosphatase activity was 20% lower compared with the control group. The minimum values of alkaline phosphatase were registered in patients with mental disorders not taking dimephosphone. When studying the concentration of total and ionized serum calcium there were no significant differences between patients of comparison group and psychiatric patients.Conclusion. Shift in processes of bone remodeling toward its resorption indicates a high risk of pathological fractures in psychiatric patients and the need for osteoporosis prevention; identified changes in biochemical markers of osteoporosis on the background of dimephosphone intake allow to recommend it for the treatment of diagnosed osteoporosis in a psychiatric hospital settings.


1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 798-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence R DeChatelet ◽  
M Robert Cooper ◽  
Charles E McCall

Abstract Leukocyte phosphatase activity was determined over a broad pH range. Using this procedure, we found no alkaline phosphatase activity in leukocytes from three patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia. The low values usually reported for this disease are actually attributable to acid phosphatase activity, which is slight but measurable at alkaline pH.


1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 799-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON E. WERGEDAL ◽  
DAVID J. BAYLINK

The distribution of acid and alkaline phosphatase activity in the rat tibia has been studied in transverse sections sawed from fresh undemineralized diaphyses. The endosteal resorbing surfaces had the highest acid phosphatase activity as demonstrated with 50 mM α-naphthol phosphate as the substrate. Strong activity was present not only in osteoclasts and adjacent osteocytes but extracellularly lining Howship's lacunae. In areas of bone formation, moderate acid phosphatase activity was present in osteoblasts and young osteocytes. In addition, a zone of activity was found at the mineralizing front where mineralization is initiated. This active zone ( a) was separated from the active periosteal cell layer by a zone of inactive osteoid and ( b) in formol-calcium-fixed demineralized sections extended into young bone. The identity of the mineralizing front was confirmed by tetracycline labeling. The activity at the mineralizing front had the properties of an enzyme. Alkaline phosphatase activity demonstrated with naphthol ASTR phosphate was largely associated with the osteoblasts and other mesenchymal cells at forming surfaces.


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