Serum samples collected from 45 untreated leprosy patients and 10 healthy subjects were studied for the activities of alkaline phosphatase, N-acetyl beta-glucosaminidase and beta-glucuronidase. A highly significant increase in the specific activity of these enzymes was observed in all types of leprosy patients as compared to controls. Increase in the level of circulatory hydrolytic enzymes could be a tissue damaging factor and may be responsible for many of the lesions seen in leprosy.
BT - Journal of hygiene, epidemiology, microbiology, and immunology C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1300356?dopt=Abstract DA - 1992 IS - 4 J2 - J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol LA - eng N2 -Serum samples collected from 45 untreated leprosy patients and 10 healthy subjects were studied for the activities of alkaline phosphatase, N-acetyl beta-glucosaminidase and beta-glucuronidase. A highly significant increase in the specific activity of these enzymes was observed in all types of leprosy patients as compared to controls. Increase in the level of circulatory hydrolytic enzymes could be a tissue damaging factor and may be responsible for many of the lesions seen in leprosy.
PY - 1992 SP - 401 EP - 4 T2 - Journal of hygiene, epidemiology, microbiology, and immunology TI - Hydrolytic enzymes in leprosy sera. VL - 36 SN - 0022-1732 ER -