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A new use of the histochemical method for intestinal lactase activity is described. Peroral intestinal biopsies from newborn light-treated infants with diarrhoea were investigated for brush-border lactase. The lactase activity found in these infants by the histochemical method correlated well with the infants ability to hydrolyze lactose judged by lactose tolerance test.
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Bakken, A.F. The application of the “Lojda” method for intestinal lactase in intestinal biopsies from jaundiced newborn infants. Histochemistry 51, 253–255 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00567229
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00567229