Placental alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity was investigated in second-trimester maternal sera from 37 pregnancies with Down's syndrome, 28 pregnancies with trisomy 18, and in a series of 497 controls using a fluorimetric heat inactivation assay and specific immunoassay. After conversion of indivi
Letter. Isoenzymes of maternal serum alkaline phosphatase in Down syndrome
โ Scribed by H. S. Cuckle; D. Miller; M. Hossein Nia; D. J. Gordon; D. W. Holt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-3851
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