“…It also inhibits several phosphate hydrolysing enzymes in vitro, including Na,K-ATPase (Cantley, Josephson, Warner, Yanagisawa, Lechene & Guidotti, 1977;Cantley, Cantley & Josephson, 1978a;Cantley, Resh & Guidotti, 1978b) and Ca-ATPase (O'Neal, Rhoads & Racker, 1979;Vincenzi & Ashleman, 1980;Dupont & Bennett, 1982). The presence of vanadium in trace concentrations of 0.1-11 M in animal tissues (Underwood, 1977) has led to the i) The Macmillan Press Ltd 1983 suggestion of a regulatory role for vanadium in some of these enzyme systems.…”