title: The heterogeneity of the serum activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase in hepatobiliary diseases as studied by agarose gel electrophoresis.
abstract: Using electrophoresis on agarose gel, the serum activity of gamma-GT in various hepatobiliary diseases has been separated into several electrophoretic fractions. Predominance of activity was always found in fractions corresponding to either alpha1-, alpha2- or beta-globulins. The predominant activity fractions have been related to the various disease states and to the zymogram patterns of gamma-GT found in bile and tissue homogenates of liver, bile duct and pancreas. Bile disclosed activity in the beta-region, tissue homogenates of liver mostly in the alpha1- and alpha2- areas, bile dict showed very faint activity in the alpha1- position, while extracts of pancreas revealed activity in the regions of alpha2, alpha2-beta and beta-gamma. In serum, dominance of alpha1-activity was found in all cases associated with alcoholism and alcoholic cirrhosis, this activity also appeared as the most frequent dominant one in biliary obstruction. Predominance of alpha2 and/or the beta-fraction in most cases occurred associated with malignant processes involving liver and/or pancreas.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000201:enzymology; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000201:enzymology; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000097:blood; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000201:enzymology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase