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  • Title: Alkaline phosphatase in adaptation to low dietary phosphate intake.
    Author: Kempson SA, Kim JK, Northrup TE, Knox FG, Dousa TP.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1979 Nov; 237(5):E465-73. PubMed ID: 495749.
    Abstract:
    Previous findings suggest that alkaline phosphatase (Alk Pase) may be involved in phosphate transport. Since phosphate reabsorption is enhanced in the kidney and duodenum of animals stabilized on a low-phosphorus diet (LPD), Alk Pase was measured in the kidney, small intestine, and other tissues in LPD rats. In particulate fractions from the renal cortex, intestine, renal medulla, liver, and heart ventricle from LPD rats the activity of Alk Pase was significantly increased but the activities of other plasma membrane enzymes were not different between control and LPD groups. The increased Alk Pase in the renal cortex was localized to the brush border of the proximal tubule histochemically and by measurement of Alk Pase in brush-border preparations. Also in the renal cortex, typical enzymes associated with mitochondria, lysosomes, and cytosol were unchanged with the exception of cytosolic adenosine 3',5' cyclic-monophosphate phosphodiesterase, which was increased in LPD rats. Alk Pase in the renal cortex and intestine may play a role in the enhanced phosphate reabsorption in LPD animals.
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