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The activities of acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, glucose-6-phosphatase, uridine diphosphatase, inosine diphosphatase, thiamine pyrophosphatase and 5′-nucleotidase have been investigated cytochemically in hepatocytes of the offspring of alcohol-fed rats, using cerium ions as a capturing agent and qualitative and quantitative electron microscopy. All these enzyme activities were decreased in the experimental animals compared with controls not exposed to ethanol. The pattern of deposition of the product of glucose-6-phosphatase activity in the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum was also different in the two groups. The phosphatases analyzed are functional markers of different cell components, and the results suggest that prenatal exposure of rats to ethanol causes functional alterations in the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes and plasma membrane of hepatocytes.
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Renau-Piqueras, J., Guerri, C., Miragall, F. et al. Alterations in the cytochemical activity of several phosphatases in hepatocytes from rats exposed prenatally to ethanol. Virchows Archiv B Cell Pathol 49, 249–259 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912102
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