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Effect of piperazine on the level of phospholipids and on the activities of certain enzymes of phospholipid metabolism in humanAscaris lumbricoides

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The phospholipid level in the human parasitic nematodeAscaris lumbricoides is decreased by piperazine, by partially stimulating catabolic enzymes such as phospholipase C and partially inhibiting anabolic enzymes such as choline kinase.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Kerala, 695001, Trivandrum, India

    P. K. Sasi & R. Kaleysa Raj

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Acknowledgment. We thank ProfessorP. A. Kurup of this Department for keen interest and helpful advice.

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Sasi, P.K., Raj, R.K. Effect of piperazine on the level of phospholipids and on the activities of certain enzymes of phospholipid metabolism in humanAscaris lumbricoides. Experientia 31, 1261–1262 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01945767

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