We report the first case of hypercalcemia-induced acute pancreatitis caused by a functioning parathyroid cyst in a 67-year-old man. Laboratory investigation revealed increased serum amylase and lipase, increased serum ionized calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels, and decreased serum phosphate, indicating pancreatitis and primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Abdominal computed tomography ...

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder due to insulin resistance caused by destruction of beta cells pancreas. Insulin in newly diagnosed type patients leads hyperglycemia. Serum amylase and lipase levels an exocrine enzyme produced acinar Altered serum endocrine disorders, syndrome mellitus.Methods: This case-control study conducted Akash Institute Medical Science...

Article history: Received: 26 Apr 2014. Accepted: 10 June 2014 Available online: ........ ZJRMS 2015 Sep; ....(..): ...-.... Background: One of the therapeutic approaches to lower postprandial blood glucose is to inhibition breakdown of starch by inhibiting carbohydrate hydrolysis enzymes. Alphaamylase catalyzes the hydrolysis of α-(1, 4)-D-glycosidic linkages of starch and other glucose polyme...

A case of acute pancreatitis complicating anaphylactoid purpura (Henoch-Schönlein syndrome) is reported. In cases of this syndrome with abdominal pain, serum amylase levels should be estimated.

BACKGROUND Previous experiments have shown that a decoction of Bauhinia forficata leaves reduces the changes in carbohydrate and protein metabolism that occur in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. In the present investigation, the serum activities of enzymes known to be reliable toxicity markers were monitored in normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats to discover whether the use of B. ...

Evaluation of a-amylase isoenzymes as a clinical diagnostic aid by previous methodologies has been either too insensitive or too cumbersome for routine clinical laboratory use. With use of an agarose gel electrophoresis system (Worthington Diagnostic Systems, Inc.) serum amylase activity can easily be resolved into at least nine isoenzymes, the resolution being comparable with that of isoelectr...

We describe a reagent for measuring alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) activity in serum with use of a thexyldimethylsilyl ether of p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-maltoheptaoside (SB7) as substrate. This substrate differs from Genzyme's benzylidene-blocked p-nitrophenylmaltoheptaoside substrate (B-PNPG7). The reagent, optimized for the characteristics of the silyl-blocked substrate, contains 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-...