ALT (or SGPT, which stands for serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase) is one of these enzymes. It's found in particularly large amounts in the liver and plays an important role in metabolism, the process that converts food into energy. Normally, ALT is found inside liver cells.
'All children, except one, grow up': Peter Pan is the book with the nation's favourite opening line. Peter Pan is the book with the nation's favourite opening line, according to a new poll. 'All children, except one, grow up,' wrote JM Barrie in his children's classic which scooped 20per cent of the vote in a poll commissioned to mark World Book Day next month.
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth has 1,349 pages and approximately 3,374,000 characters. It's claimed to be the longest single volume novel ever published in English. Before Seth's novel, others turned to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa as the longest novel with over a million words (and about 5,500,000 characters).