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. 1979 Dec 15;184(3):705–707. doi: 10.1042/bj1840705

Postnatal development of uridine diphosphate glucuronyltransferase activity towards bilirubin and 2-aminophenol in human liver.

S Onishi, N Kawade, S Itoh, K Isobe, S Sugiyama
PMCID: PMC1161858  PMID: 120201

Abstract

UDP-glucuronyltransferase activities towards 2-aminophenol and bilirubin were studied in a total of 70 human subjects, including premature and full-term newborn babies, infants, children and adults. These two activities have been reported in rat to develop latefoetally and neonatally respectively, but in man they both develop neonatally. There is a linear relationship between the logarithm of each liver transferase activity and the logarithm of the number of days after birth during the first 3 months of life, after which each activity remains constant.

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