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amylase

[ UK /ˈæmɪlˌe‍ɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants; help convert starch to sugar

How To Use amylase In A Sentence

  • Several clinical trials are in progress for therapeutic application of genetic diseases, such as hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiencies.
  • Dietary asafoetida, cumin and onion also significantly enhanced the activity of pancreatic amylase.
  • Egg yolks contain a starch-digesting enzyme, amylase, that is remarkably resistant to heat. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • · Appropriate starters have been developed that can produce amylase and linamarase enzymes necessary for starch breakdown and cyanogenic glucoside hydrolysis; two major biochemical processes needed in cassava processing. 12 Cassava Processing in Africa
  • Alpha-amylase is secreted into saliva by the parotid gland, the largest of the salivary glands. NIH Finds Stress May Delay Women Getting Pregnant
  • Ultimately, House deduces that the patient has OTD (ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency).
  • Indeed, in the absence of amylase starch is not degraded, and anoxia-intolerant cereals such as wheat and barley suffer soon from sugar starvation, and eventually die.
  • You need a supplement that provides all of the three main groups of enzymes - amylase, protease and lipase - to break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
  • The purpose of all this is to bring about chemical changes, of which the most important is the secretion by the growing embryo of an enzyme, amylase, which converts starch in the grain to maltose, a sugar.
  • Aminoacidopathies (maple syrup urine disease; homocystinuria; cobalamin deficiencies; tyrosinemia; urea cycle defects (ornithine transcarbamylase, carbamyl phosphate synthase, citrullinemia, argininosuccinic aciduria, arginase deficiencies) and non-ketotic hyperglycinemia) Biochemical Genetics-Metabolic Disease
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