Little is known about the associations of eating a late-evening meal (ELM), a putative unhealthy eating behavior, with low serum amylase, other eating behaviors, and cardiometabolic risk factors. Therefore, we investigated whether ELM before bedtime was associated with low serum amylase or other clinical factors in 2,426 asymptomatic adults aged 20-80 years. Multivariate logistic regression ana...

AIM The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relation between the expression of liver alpha-amylase and obesity. BACKGROUND Alpha-amylase catalyses the hydrolysis of 1, 4-alpha-glucosidic linkages in polysaccharides and has three main subtypes, including: salivary, pancreatic, and hepatic. Hepatic alpha-amylase is involved in glycogen metabolism, and has a role in obesity and its managemen...

OBJECTIVE To perform an unbiased assessment of first postoperative day (POD 1) drain amylase level and pancreatic fistula (PF) after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). BACKGROUND Recent evidence demonstrated that drain abandonment in PD is unsafe. Early drain amylase levels have been proposed as predictors of PF after PD, allowing for selection of patients for early drain removal. METHODS Daily ...

asparaginase and amylase are widely used enzymes in various industries, which can be produced by endophytic fungi. in this study, the ability of producing these two enzymes in endophytic fungi isolated from six species of thymus has been reported for the first time in the world. among 89 isolates of the test, 34 isolates produced asparaginase among which m24 (fusarium subglutinans) displayed th...

In his original study of Pseudomonas saccharophila, Doudoroff (1940) found that an inducible extracellular amylase was formed when cells were grown with soluble starch or maltose. He also observed indications of intracellular amylase activity. The present study was undertaken in order to characterize further the amylase(s) of P. saccharophila. Two enzymes with different physical and enzymatic p...

background: a-amylases (ec 3.2.1.1) are covering approximately 25% of total enzyme market and are frequently used in food, pharmaceutical and detergent industries.objectives: the first ever detailed characterization of amylase from any halophilic engyodontium album is presented. materials and methods: an extracellular α-amylase was studied from halophilic e. album tistr 3645. the enzyme was ext...

In six conscious dogs with gastric and duodenal cannulas, secretin (164 pmol. kg(-1). h(-1) iv) was given to provide a flow of pancreatic juice of approximately 1 drop/s. Amylase activity was measured in each drop before and after rapid intravenous injection of caerulein (7.4 pmol/kg) or intraduodenal injection of L-tryptophan (1 mmol), sodium oleate (3 mmol), and HCl (3 mmol). All experiments ...

Considered to be an etiologic factor of acute pancreatitis, hypersecretion of pancreatic juice and digestive enzymes is often associated with hyperbilirubinemia. We explored the intracellular mechanisms through which bilirubin affects pancreatic exocrine secretory function by examining the effect of bilirubin on isolated rat pancreatic acini. Bilirubin stimulated amylase release in a concentrat...

OBJECTIVE The study of the serum lipase and total amylase and its isoenzymes as biochemical markers of pancreatic injury in patients treated with valproic acid and other enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs. METHOD The serum activities of lipase and total amylase and its isoenzymes were determined in 41 patients treated in monotherapy with valproic acid, 50 patients in mono/polytherapy with ph...

The most reliable indicators for post-ERCP acute pancreatitis are elevated amylase levels and abdominal pain 24 hours after ERCP. As ERCP is often performed on an outpatient basis, earlier diagnosis is important. We aimed to identify early predictors of post-ERCP pancreatitis. We prospectively analyzed IL-6, IL-10, TNFα, CRP, amylase and lipase before and 4 hours after ERCP, and studied their a...