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Immunology and Biochemistry of Regan Isoenzyme of Alkaline Phosphatase in Human Cancer

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Derepression of the genome of the cancer cell may explain why certain cancer patients exhibit an isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase biochemically and immunologically indistinguishable from human placental alkaline phosphatase.

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  1. Tufts University School of Medicine and the New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts

    WILLIAM H. FISHMAN, NORMA R. INGLIS, SIDNEY GREEN, CLAIRE L. ANSTISS & NIMAI K. GOSH

  2. Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

    ARNOLD E. REIF

  3. Brockton VA Hospital, Brockton, Massachusetts

    ROBERT RUSTIGIAN

  4. Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

    MELVIN J. KRANT & LEO L. STOLBACH

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FISHMAN, W., INGLIS, N., GREEN, S. et al. Immunology and Biochemistry of Regan Isoenzyme of Alkaline Phosphatase in Human Cancer. Nature 219, 697–699 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219697a0

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