Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder which has emerged as a global public health threat in the present century. The present oral hypoglycemic agents produce undesirable side effects and oxidative stress. Thus there is a need for a safe, cost effective and complementary therapy for Diabetes mellitus. To evaluate the Nitric oxide scavenging activity and Alpha amylase inhibitory activity of P...

AIM To determine whether pancreatic enzymes are present in hepatic bile and in intrahepatic bile duct epithelium. METHODS The activity and proteins of pancreatic enzymes (pancreatic alpha-amylase, lipase, trypsin/trypsinogen) in hepatic bile were investigated using biochemical and western blot analyses in 25 patients with extrahepatic bile duct obstruction. Immunolocalization of enzyme protei...

Increasing evidence shows that sugars can act as signals affecting plant metabolism and development. Some of the effects of sugars on plant growth and development suggest an interaction of sugar signals with hormonal regulation. We investigated the effects of sugars on the induction of [alpha]-amylase by gibberellic acid in barley embryos and aleurone layers. Our results show that sugar and hor...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to isolate and characterize the andrographolide betulin from methanolic leaves extract Andrographis echioides also used evaluate alpha-amylase alpha-glucosidase inhibitory activity isolated compounds using in silico docking studies.
 Methods: isolation was done column chromatography gradient mobile phase. Structural elucidation carried out on basis s...

This is the first report of the psychobiology of stress in BASE jumpers, one of the most dangerous forms of extreme sport. We tested the hypotheses that indicators of emotional style (temperament) predict salivary cortisol reactivity, whereas indicators of intentional goal-setting (persistence and character) predict salivary alpha-amylase reactivity during BASE jumping. Ninety-eight subjects co...

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...

BACKGROUND In emergency medicine, the benefits of high-fidelity simulation (SIM) are widely accepted and standardized patients (SP) are known to mimic real patients accurately. However, only limited data are available concerning physicians' stress markers within these training environments. The aim of this pilot study was to investigate repetitive stress among healthcare professionals in simula...

In the production of industrial enzymes, filamentous fungi are attractive as cell factories because they can secrete large amounts of protein into the medium. Many important industrial enzymes such as amylases, lipases and cellulase are produced by fermentation of filamentous fungi. Aspergillus oryzae is well-known filamentous producer of alpha amylase and has GRAS status. In the present study ...

A continuous method for the determination of alpha-amylase activity with a defined substrate has been published by Rauscher et al. in Berichte der Osterreichischen Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie 4, 150 (1981). It offers the following advantages: good practicability, easy adaptation to analysers and short incubation time. Twenty-one laboratories took part in a multicentric study on this metho...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a support intervention (warm touch enhancement) influences physiological stress systems that are linked to important health outcomes. Growing evidence points to a protective effect of social and emotional support on both morbidity and mortality. METHODS In this study, 34 healthy married couples (n = 68), aged 20 to 39 years (mean = 25.2 years), were randomly a...