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  • Title: [Serum cathepsin A activity in pregnant, parturient and puerperal patients].
    Author: Kurzatkowski W, Ostrowska H, Doroszko M.
    Journal: Zentralbl Gynakol; 1990; 112(4):227-9. PubMed ID: 1688344.
    Abstract:
    Cathepsin A activity has been determinal in sera of nonpregnant, pregnant (1st, 2nd and 3rd trimesto), puerperal (first, third and fifth day post partum) and parturient women in second stage (retroplacental blood and blood from umbilical cord) by means of N-Cbz-L-glutamyl-L-tyrosin after incubation with 37 degrees C and pH 5.5. There was an increasing cathepsin A activity with the duration of pregnancy, during labour and in the first puerperal days. Maximum of activity of cathepsin A has been determined in serum of retroplacental blood.
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