Bodansky unit


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Bo·dan·sky u·nit

(bō-dan'skē),
that amount of phosphatase that liberates 1 mg of phosphorus as inorganic phosphate during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium β-glycerophosphate.
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Bo·dan·sky u·nit

(bō-dan'skē yū'nit)
The amount of phosphatase that liberates 1 mg of phosphorus as inorganic phosphate during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium β-glycerophosphate.
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Bodansky,

Aaron, U.S. biochemist, 1887-1961.
Bodansky unit - that amount of phosphatase that liberates 1 mg of phosphorus as inorganic phosphate during the first hour of incubation with a buffered substrate containing sodium β-glycerophosphate.
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