PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Paul L. Wolf AU - Boris Silberberg AU - Samuel Albert AU - Jerome Horwitz AU - Elisabeth Von Der Muehill TI - Histochemical similarities between newborn and leukaemic myeloid cells and their possible significance AID - 10.1136/jcp.22.4.458 DP - 1969 Jul 01 TA - Journal of Clinical Pathology PG - 458--459 VI - 22 IP - 4 4099 - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/22/4/458.short 4100 - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/22/4/458.full SO - J Clin Pathol1969 Jul 01; 22 AB - The neutrophilic alkaline phosphatase activity of 40 newborns was determined and found to be frequently raised, similarly to a leukaemoid reaction. The newborn neutrophil has strong alkaline phosphatase activity and is unlike the myeloid leukaemia cell which has no alkaline phosphatase activity.