@article{9444,
  keywords = {Humans, leprosy, Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary},
  author = {Vinnik L A and Gerovich L M and Balybin E S},
  title = {[Angiotensin converting enzyme in the blood serum of patients with tuberculosis and leprosy].},
  abstract = {<p>Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) levels in the serum of 15 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 9 with leprosy were measured by means of a spectrophotometric method. The serum produced from 10 blood donors was used as a control. Leprosy is accompanied by a sharp drop of ACE levels, which is attributed by the authors to a cellular immunodeficiency. In case of tuberculosis, a higher ACE level in blood often follows fibrosis formed in the lung along with a tuberculin hyperergia. The opinion that the ACE level reflects the tuberculosis or leprosy activity as well as the granulomatous tissue extension in tuberculosis patients has not been confirmed.</p>},
  year = {1990},
  journal = {Problemy tuberkuleza},
  pages = {54-6},
  month = {1990},
  issn = {0032-9533},
  language = {rus},
}