EFFECT OF ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE ON MUSCLE ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND NONSPECIFIC ESTERASE
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 55 (3) , 226-230
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0404.1977.tb05641.x
Abstract
Acetylcholinesterases [EC 3.1.1.7] in the muscle homogenates of hamsters receiving ACTH i.p. for 6 wk were reduced as compared to activities in control samples. In polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis of the ACTH-treated muscles some acetylcholinesterase bands were absent. These observations may be significant in explaining the ACTH-induced improvement in myasthenia gravis patients and in the pathophysiology of steroid myopathy.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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