Abstract
HIGH dilutions of seminal fluid in physiological saline often show markedly lower acid phosphatase activity than similar dilutions of the same specimen in serum or serum derivatives1. This difference is especially marked in specimens which have been stored for some days or weeks in the refrigerator. Similar differences may be found between the acid phosphatase activity of saline extracts of human prostate diluted with saline and those diluted with serum derivatives.
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Jeffree, G. M., Biochem. J., 53, xv (1953).
London, M., and Hudson, P. B., Arch. Biochem. and Biophys., 46, 141 (1953).
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JEFFREE, G. An Effect of Certain Proteins and Amines on Prostatic Acid Phosphatase. Nature 175, 509–510 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175509a0
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