The specificity of pigeon brain aceto-cholinesterase
- 1 July 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 54 (4), 660-664
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0540660
Abstract
Pigeon-brain cholinesterase was shown to possess the specificity pattern characteristic of aceto-cholinesterases. The high level of cholinesterase activity in the avian brain is confirmed and discussed.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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