Matsukura H, Suzuki Y, Takai R, Okada T, Naiki S, Sakuragawa N
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Clin Chim Acta. 1987 Nov 16;169(2-3):209-15. doi: 10.1016/0009-8981(87)90321-4.
Urinary excretion of alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyltransferase and lactate dehydrogenase was studied in a carefully selected group of 155 healthy children, 83 females and 72 males. Enzyme activity was assayed in randomly collected urine samples after gel filtration of the urine specimens. On chromatograms, urinary enzymes of alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyltransferase and lactate dehydrogenase were separated into 4, 2 and 5 isoenzymes, respectively. Mean values of alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyltransferase and lactate dehydrogenase activity were 4.59, 21.6 and 10.0 U/g creatinine. There were no sex-related differences besides lactate dehydrogenase which showed a higher excretion in females than in males. The excretion of urinary enzymes clearly decreased with increasing age.