Hepatic activity and mRNA expression of
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Stanislas Pol; Bertrand Nalpas; Anne Vassault; Bernadette Bousquet-Lemercier; Do
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In liver and serum, AST activity is dependent on two isoenzymes, which are mitochondrial and cytosolic in nature. In an attempt to explain the well-known increase of serum mitochondrial AST-to-total AST ratio in chronic alcoholism (which is due to a specific increase of the mitochondrial isoenzyme),