Composition and enzymic activity of cytoplasmic proteins in myometrium of female rabbits during pregnancy
Nikolaeva, E.N.
Ukrainskii Biokhimicheskii Zhurnal 50(5): 570-572
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0201-8470 PMID: 726091 Document Number: 124879
It is shown that on the 27-30th day of pregnancy in the myometrium cytoplasm of female rabbits the content of proteins, the aldolase (EC 4.1.2.7) and lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.27) activities are increased. Redistribution between fractions of certain lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) isoenzymes is observed: the fraction of LDH4--5 increases and that of LDH1--2 decreases, and the ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) activity lowers as well. A rise in the amount of proteins in the female rabbits myometrium cytoplasm in the last days of pregnancy and the growing fraction of LDH4--5 testify to the myometrium enchanced contractility during the labour.