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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Toxicol In Vitro. 2021 Jan 23;72:105102. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2021.105102

Table 2.

Specific activities for brain, heart, lung, skeletal muscle and serum acetylcholinesterase (AChE), serum butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), and liver and serum carboxylesterase (CaE) from rats of three ages (post-natal day, PND 1, 12 and 70).

AChE Activities
BChE Activities
CaE Activities
Age Brain Heart Lung Skeletal Muscle Serum Serum Liver Serum

PND 1 43.4 ±7.1A 19.9 ± 0.2 A 17.9 ± 0.6A 21.2 ± 0.3A 10.4 ± 1.1A 4.9 ± 0.2A 147± 10A 20 ± 6.2A
PND 12 79.4 ± 4.8B 22.8 ± 0.7A 20.6 ± 2.0A 22.9 ± 0.7A 11.4 ± 0.6A 6.0 ± 0.2A 558± 11B 70 ± 6.3B
PND 70 98.8 ± 5.2C 27.0 ± 0.9B 25.4 ± 1.2B 30.3 ± 1.2B 12.9 ± 0.3A 8.7 ± 0.4C 1154±22C 160 ± 7.1C
b

Specific activities expressed as nmoles min−1 mgP−1, for AChE, BChE and CaE, means ± SEM of three independent replications. Means within a tissue not followed by the same letter are significantly different (p<0.05).