The Creatine Kinase BB Isoenzyme

Abstract

The CK-BB levels in specific organs are listed in Table 1. The data given on total CK activity of human tissues represent a summary and compromise of the results obtained by various authors and with different methods. Similar data also have been published by Klein et al. [384] and Yasmineh et al. [895]. The only case where divergent figures have not been tabulated is the extremely high CK activity of 250 U/g for placenta reported by Laboda etal. [419]. In addition to the chemical investigations on tissue homogenates, histochemical quantitation of CK-BB in some organs has been reported recently by Jockers-Wretou et al. [342], see Chap. 4.3.