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The internal genitalia of female normal rabbits and mutant lysozyme-deficient rabbits, which lack genetically the leukocytic isozyme of lysozyme, were assayed for lysozyme activity. The ovaries, uteri, and vaginas of the lysozyme-deficient rabbits had less than 20% of the lysozyme activity of normals. The oviducts, and in particular the caudal portions of the oviducts, had lysozyme activities up to 71% of the levels in normal. These observations suggest that the lysozymes of oviduct and leukocytes of rabbits are under the control of different genes.
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Supported in part by grants RR00515, RR05465, K04-RR00003, and T32-GM07160 from the National Institutes of Health. We acknowledge the excellent technical assistance of LeeAndra Froseth.
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Prieur, D.J., Cámara, V.M. Lysozyme activity in female genital tissues of normal and genetically lysozyme-deficient rabbits. Experientia 41, 1603–1604 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01964830
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