Bodansky unit

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The Bodansky unit is an outdated measure of the concentration of alkaline phosphatase in the blood . It is defined as the amount of alkaline phosphatase that releases 1 milligram of phosphate in the first hour of incubation in a buffered solution with the substrate sodium β- glycerophosphate . This procedure was published in 1934 by Aaron Bodansky and Henry L. Jaffe. Alternative outdated procedures or units are z. B. King-Armstrong , Bessey-Lowry-Brock , Kind-King and International units .

Individual evidence

  1. Medlexicon.com: Bodansky unit . Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  2. ^ A. Bodansky, HL Jaffe: Phosphatase Studies. VIII. Increase of Serum Phosphatase After Bile Duct Ligation in Dog. In: Experimental Biology and Medicine. 31, 1934, p. 1179, doi : 10.3181 / 00379727-31-7492P .
  3. JJ Deren, LA Williams, H. Muench, T. Chalmers, N. Zamchek: Comparative study of four methods of determining alkaline phosphatase. In: The New England Journal of Medicine . Volume 270, June 1964, pp. 1277-1283, doi : 10.1056 / NEJM196406112702403 , PMID 14133665 .
  4. Howerde E. Sauberlich: Laboratory tests for the Assessment of Nutritional Status, Second Edition. CRC Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-849-38506-3 , p. 238.