How does the alkaline phosphatase assay distinguish between other phosphatases in a serum sample?

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Steingrimur Stefansson

Hi Marsha. I thought that this would be a fairly easy thing to determine, but there are a boatload of papers describing how to do this with various methods:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=assay+%22acid+phosphatase%22+%22alkaline+phosphatase%22+%22in+serum%22+inhibitor&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C21&as_vis=1

Marcia Moss

Thanks for trying, Steingrimur