Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving hydrolase
Patent
1997-05-07
1999-02-16
Leary, Louise N.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving hydrolase
435 18, 435 4, 536 261, 536 2853, 536 268, 536 285, 536 278, 536 2674, 536 2781, 536 2672, 556 81, 436 76, 436800, C12Q 142, C12Q 134, C12Q 100
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ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a highly effective method for determining very low concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, cadminum, mercury, and copper in body fluids. Ratios of d-5'-N/Pyr-5'-N activities which display greater deviation and stronger correlation with blood heavy metal concentrations than absolute Pyr-5'-N activities alone, are utilized to provide a highly sensitive, internally controlled biomarker of low-level lead overburden, for example.
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Bhambhani Kanta
Nakatani Misae
Paglia Donald E.
Renner Stephen W.
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