Abstract：
:For normal and above-normal concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE; EC 3.4.15.1) activity in plasma, results of a manual fluorometric method [with hippuryl-histidyl-leucine (HHL), 5 mmol/L, as substrate] correlated well with those of an automated spectrophotometric method [with 3-(2-furylacryloyl)-L-phenylalanyl-glycyl-glycine (FAPGG), 2 mmol/L, as substrate]. However, for patients receiving converting enzyme inhibitor (CEI) therapy, the spectrophotometric method showed much greater suppression of plasma ACE activity than did the fluorometric method. To determine which of the two methods provided a more reliable indication of ACE inhibition in vivo, we measured plasma ACE, angiotensin I (ANG I), and angiotensin II (ANG II) in patients receiving the CEI perindopril. During perindopril therapy, changes in the ratio of ANG II:ANG I, an index of ACE activity in vivo, showed a close agreement with changes in plasma ACE activity measured with FAPGG as substrate, but not with HHL as substrate. We conclude that measurement of ACE activity in vitro with FAPGG as substrate provides a reliable measure of changes in conversion of ANG I to ANG II in vivo during CEI therapy.
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Clin Chemjournal_title
Clinical chemistryauthors
Gorski TP,Campbell DJsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-08-01 00:00:00pages
1390-3issue
8eissn
0009-9147issn
1530-8561journal_volume
37pub_type
杂志文章abstract：BACKGROUND:Measurement of purine and pyrimidine metabolites presents complex problems for separations currently performed by HPLC and thin-layer chromatography in clinical practice. We developed a novel capillary electrophoresis method for this purpose. METHODS:Separations were performed in 60 mmol/L borate-2-amino-2-...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00
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doi：10.1373/clinchem.2014.230086
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2014.234955
更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
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doi：
更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2015.239459
更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2007.090605
更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2004.036863
更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2008.112151
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2012.191445
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00
