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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 25, 719-722, Copyright © 1979 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Significance of "high" acid phosphatase activity in the serum of normal children

J Chen, LT Yam, AJ Janckila, CY Li and WK Lam

Serum acid phosphatase activity in normal children (newborn to 18 years) is several fold that in normal adults. Activity is age-related but not sex-related. The isoenzyme pattern in children is similar to that in adults and contains no prostatic fraction. Quantitatively, most of the enzyme activity in the serum of children is tartrate-resistant and correlates well with heat-labile fractions of alkaline phosphatase activity in serum, suggesting that the source of the higher acid phosphatase activity in children is bone. Significant tartrate- resistant acid phosphatase activity was demonstrated in the giant cells in three patients with giant-cell tumors, but not in the "osteoblasts" in six patients with osteogenic sarcomas and many other normal or abnormal tissues. This work suggests that the higher enzyme activity in the serum of children represents a normal physiological phenomenon resulting from their greater osteoclastic activity.


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