pseudocholinesterase

pseudocholinesterase
One of the two types of cholinesterase (the other being acetylcholinesterase), found primarily in the liver where it hydrolyses butyrylcholine.
Syn: acylcholine acylhydrolase, butyrylcholinesterase, plasma cholinesterase

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