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Lactate Dehydrogenase Isoenzymes in Malignant Tissues

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PREVIOUS reports from this laboratory have shown that the electrophoretically fast lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes, LD1 and LD2, of human and animal tissues exhibit high activity with 3.3 mM 2-oxobutyrate as substrate relative to that with 0.7 mM pyruvate1,2.

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    HANNA POZNANSKA-LINDE, J. H. WILKINSON & WENDY A. WITHYCOMBE

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POZNANSKA-LINDE, H., WILKINSON, J. & WITHYCOMBE, W. Lactate Dehydrogenase Isoenzymes in Malignant Tissues. Nature 209, 727–728 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209727a0

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