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But the quest for a biomarker in blood as a screening test prompts one to look for AChE in blood and study its role in HD diagnosis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To develop a low-cost reliable method to estimate the AChE activity in plasma and red blood cells (RBCs) in normal children (control) and study its role in HD (test).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Optimized method derived after modifying and standardizing known AChE assay protocols for blood were employed on 30 controls to define the AChE cut-off range, on 40 suspected HD cases to categorize them as HD\/non-HD based on cut-off values and later compared with gold standard tissue AChE histochemistry of rectal mucosal biopsies.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An optimal in-house modified methods of Ellman's was found best suited to analyze plasma AChE activity, method by Wilson and Henderson was optimal for extraction and AChE estimation in RBCs. AChE levels (controls) obtained were 1.03 \u00b1 0.31 U\/mL and 5.17 \u00b1 1.52 U\/mL in plasma and RBCs, respectively while the plasma AChE was 1.35 \u00b1 0.84 U\/mL (HD) and 1.62 \u00b1 0.85 U\/mL (non-HD) while RBC AChE was 4.29 \u00b1 3.2 U\/mL (HD) and 6.48 \u00b1 4.31 U\/mL (non-HD). 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