Plasma cholinesterase: gene and variations.

doi:10.1213/00000539-199377020-00027

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Plasma cholinesterase: gene and variations.

Anesthesia and analgesia - 1 Aug 1993

Pantuck E J

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The traditional tests that have been used for the past 30 yr to determine plasma cholinesterase phenotype--measurement of esterase activity with a variety of substrates, dibucaine inhibition, fluoride inhibition, and Ro2-0683 inhibition--are inadequate for identifying some variants of this enzyme...

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Butyrylcholinesterase
Cholinesterases
Genes
Genetic Variation
Humans

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