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Fetal Intestinal Microvilli in Human Amniotic Fluid by Michel Potier; Jocelyne Cousineau; Lorraine Michaud; Max Zolinger; Serge B. Melançon; Louis Dallaire is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fetal Intestinal Microvilli in Human Amniotic Fluid about?
The intestinal microvilli of fetal origin in human amniotic fluid were purified by Ca2+ precipitation of contaminating organelles followed by differential centrifugation of microvillar membranes. In the purified preparation, the specific activity of the microvillar marker-enzymes maltase and sucrase increased about 77-fold over that in cell-free amniotic fluid. Significant contamination of the purified preparation by endoplasmic reticulum (microsomes) and lysosomes was ruled out on the basis of a low content of the marker enzymes glucose-6-phosphatase (microsomes) and acid phosphatase (lysosomes). Amniotic fluid microvilli contain typical enzymes of the fetal intestine including maltase, sucrase, trehalase, alkaline phosphatase and gamma-glutamyltransferase, and their morphology by electron microscopy resembles that of vesiculated intestinal microvilli. Prenatal detection of genetic diseases due to a deficiency of a protein expressed in these membranes or associated to abnormal microvilli seems feasible.
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- Author
- Michel Potier; Jocelyne Cousineau; Lorraine Michaud; Max Zolinger; Serge B. Melançon; Louis Dallaire
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0197-3851)
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)