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A PAPER by Zajicek and Datta1 describing the presence of a high concentration of acetylcholine esterase or ‘true’ cholinesterase in the thrombocytes of rat blood recently came to my attention. I have known for some time that considerable ‘true’ cholinesterase is to be found in the white layer of centrifuged rat blood, and while I was working at the Medical Research Laboratories of the Defence Research Board, Ottawa, Canada, I showed by substrate and inhibitor studies that this is a typical ‘true’ cholinesterase. It was my opinion at that time that the enzyme was in the leucocytes rather than in the platelets; but in all other respects my work with rat blood confirmed the findings of the above authors.
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Zajicek, I., and Datta, N., Acta Haematologica, 7, 39 (1952).
McCance, R. A., Hutchinson, A. O., Dean, R. F. A., and Jones, P. E. H., Biochem. J., 45, 493 (1949).
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HINES, B. Acetylcholine Esterase of the White Components of Blood. Nature 170, 78–79 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170078b0
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