[Aspartate aminotransferase activities in renal tissue during experimental and human chronic pyelonephritis]

This study belongs to a series of comparative biochemical and semiquantitative-histological investigations in renal tissue fractions of pyelonephritis patients (human PN) and of different types of experimental pyelonephritis (experimental PN). The experiments aim at more detailed knowledge on the interrelationship of intermediary cell metabolism and histopathological changes during the different phases of human and experimental PN. The results concerning acid and alkaline phosphatase activities as well as concerning glutaminase I and glutamic dehydrogenase activities were earlier reported (Exp. Path. vols. 8, 9, 10 and 12). In the present study the author has analyzed the activities of aspartate aminotransferase (E.C.2.6.1.1. AspAT) the synonym of which is glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT).