Uridine kinase activities in developing, adult and neoplastic rat tissues
- 15 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 182 (3), 771-778
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1820771
Abstract
Uridine kinase activities were found chiefly in the soluble fractions of rat tissues. In normal adults the activities ranged from 13 munits/g in skeletal muscle to 178 munits/g in colon. Enzyme activities in several rat neoplasms were significantly higher (e.g. in a fibrosarcoma, mammary carcinoma, renal carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma and lymphocytic lymphoma, but not in a fast-growing Morris hepatoma). The activities were not related to tumour growth rates or sizes. In normal foetal liver, lung, brain, heart and kidney, uridine kinase concentrations equalled or exceeded those in the adult homologous tissue, but maximal activities in liver were reached 3–5 days post partum. In suckling rats the intestinal activity decreased substantially immediately after birth and normally did not rise again until late in the third postnatal week. Premature upsurges could be evoked by an injection of cortisol or by starvation of the pups overnight. Pancreatic activity was absent from 1-day-old rats, and only about 5% of the adult activity was reached by day 20; adult activities were attained rapidly after weaning. In pancreas, precocious formation or uridine kinase was elicited by overnight starvation of 2-week-old rats.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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