pancreatic amylase

Medical laboratories will usually measure either pancreatic amylase or total amylase.

Pancreatic amylase that breaks down, besides starch and glycogen, most other carbohydrates.

Pancreatic amylase breaks down some carbohydrates (notably starch) into oligosaccharides.

A duplication of the pancreatic amylase gene developed independently in humans and rodents, further suggesting its importance.

If only pancreatic amylase is measured, an increase will not be noted with mumps or other salivary gland trauma.

Secreted to a lesser degree are pancreatic lipase and pancreatic amylase.

Pancrelipase is a mixture of porcine-derived pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, and chymotrypsin.

During digestion, bonds between glucose molecules are broken by salivary and pancreatic amylase, resulting in progressively smaller chains of glucose.

Most of her work centered on amylase, a starch enzyme, most notably finding a method for purifying crystalline porcine pancreatic amylase.

Pancreatic juice made by the pancreas, which secretes enzymes such as pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, and trypsinogen (inactive form of protease).

Methods for the measurement of duodenal juice total protein specific radioactivities, pancreatic amylase and trypsin specific radioactivities, and plasma leucine specific radioactivities have been described.

The digestion of starch begins with the action of salivary alpha-amylase/ptyalin, although its activity is slight in comparison with that of pancreatic amylase in the small intestine.

The same is true for patients with an abnormal kidney function or pancreatic enzymes (pancreatic amylase and pancreatic lipase), in which ultrasound can be used for additional anatomical information.

This helps neutralize the pH of the digestive products entering the duodenum from the stomach, as digestive enzymes from the pancreas (eg, pancreatic amylase and pancreatic lipase) function optimally at slightly basic pH.

Rossowski WJ, Zacharia S, Jiang NY, Mungan Z, Mills MR, Ertan A, Coy DH: Galanin; Structure-dependent effect on pancreatic amylase secretion and jejunal strip contraction.