Table 1.
ACE2 activity in different tissues
| Tissue | mmol Mca-AP-OH/mg protein/h |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouse |
Rat |
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| Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | |
| Ventricle | 0.1035 | 0.0161 | 0.1238 | 0.0156 |
| Kidney | 11.7588 | 0.6394 | 0.8585 | 0.1042 |
| Lung | 0.2615 | 0.0111 | 0.6690 | 0.1327 |
| Liver | 0.0772 | 0.0078 | 0.2065 | 0.0419 |
| Testis | 0.1276 | 0.0123 | 0.1946 | 0.0341 |
| Bladder | 0.5557 | 0.0758 | 0.7404 | 0.0876 |
| Forebrain | 0.4265 | 0.0563 | 0.3729 | 0.0098 |
| Spleen | 0.0273 | 0.0049 | 0.0236 | 0.0072 |
| Thymus | 0.1380 | 0.0453 | 0.0555 | 0.0054 |
| Stomach | 0.4447 | 0.0222 | 0.4999 | 0.0437 |
| Ileum | 51.5659 | 14.6782 | 16.3141 | 1.4390 |
| Colon | 0.1348 | 0.0419 | 0.1823 | 0.0339 |
| Brainstem | 0.3519 | 0.1396 | 0.3507 | 0.0381 |
| Atrium | 0.1076 | 0.0268 | 0.1617 | 0.0161 |
| Adipose tissue | 0.3578 | 0.0905 | 0.9696 | 0.3500 |
It is shown that the amount of Mca-AP generated from Mca-APK(Dnp) by 1 mg of protein from different tissues of mice and rat within 1 h (n ≥ 4).