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Diastase


Definition:

  • (n.) A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Total mortality was 19.7-14% for diverticulitis, 22.2% for perforations at the cancer site, 50% from diastasic perforations.
  • (2) Periodic acid-Schiff-positive, diastase resistant, intracytoplasmic crystals, pathognomonic for alveolar soft-part sarcoma, were present.
  • (3) Examination of possibility of AAT deficiency should be performed in every case, where the cause of liver disease is unsolved; this examination is especially indicated by the presence of typical PAS positive, diastase-resistant, AAT immunreactive globules in hepatocytes.
  • (4) Reviews of postmortem reports on patients with Whipple's disease (intestinal lipodystrophy) describe gross valvular deformity in more than 50% with characteristic histological findings of macrophages containing periodic acid-Schiff-positive, diastase-resistant granules.
  • (5) In 10 of 56 patients with primary liver carcinoma the nontumorous hepatocytes contained diastase resistant, periodic acid-Schiff positive and alpha-1-antitrypsin positive (immunoperoxidase technique) globules.
  • (6) The partial deficiency of alpha-1-antitrypsin and the diagnosis of cirrhosis were suspected one year prior to death because a needle biopsy of liver showed PAS positive, diastase resistant cytoplasmic bodies within hepatocytes.
  • (7) These cells are PAS-positive, diastase labile and fail to bind alcian blue.
  • (8) Detail studies on a diastasic digested leucofuxin coloured citotrofoblastic and synciziotrophoblastic villus cells permitted to localize chorion glicoprotein concentration almost exclusively in the proximal portion of the trophoblastic syncitium.
  • (9) Furthermore, diastase-resistant PAS-positive and hyaluronidase-digested Alcian blue positive substances were observed in cytoplasms.
  • (10) Characteristic periodic acid-Schiff-positive, diastase-resistant cytoplasmic granules were demonstrated in greater than 90% of the cases, and the butyrate esterase histochemical stain for lipase activity was positive in 73%.
  • (11) These globules were PAS-positive, diastase-resistant and also were positive with the trichrome stain.
  • (12) The technique provided a direct and careful vision of the disiuntion, allowing to prove with scientific exactitude for the first time the diastase of ptherigoideis processes.
  • (13) The granules were periodic acid-Schiff-positive (with resistance to diastase digestion), negative for fat stains and revealed lectin-binding patterns similar to those in granular cell tumor.
  • (14) The globules were brightly positive with PAS stain with diastase, were brick red with Masson's trichrome stain, and showed variably positive staining with Mallory's phosphotungstic acid-hematoxylin and Ziehl-Nielson stains.
  • (15) Frequently, organisms can be seen in necrotic areas of the lung tissue by diastase-modified GMS or PAS staining.
  • (16) The activity of peroxydase was examined according to Sato and Sekya, that of acid phosphatase according to Löffler and Berghoff, that of alpha-naphthyl-acetate-esterase according to Gomori; the evidence of glycogen was examined by means of the PAS-diastase response according to McManus.
  • (17) Diastase pretreatment and PAS-staining were used to determine the presence of glycogen.
  • (18) The cells in the peripheral blood as well as those obtained from lymph node biopsy were strongly periodic acid-Schiff positive; the positivity was diastase sensitive.
  • (19) On light microscopy, the MCL were seen in the degenerative fatty tissues and within multinucleated giant cells, which were positive for periodic acid-Schiff stain and resistant to diastase digestion.
  • (20) Sections from each case were stained for the presence of mucin using diastase periodic-acid-Schiff (d-PAS) with and without an alcian blue counterstain as well as immunocytochemistry for cytokeratin (CAM 5.2), epithelial membrane antigen (NCRC-11) and c-erb B-2 (21N).

Enzyme


Definition:

  • (n.) An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
  • (2) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
  • (3) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
  • (4) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (5) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (6) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
  • (7) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
  • (8) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
  • (9) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
  • (10) During enzyme purification two nucleases were identified.
  • (11) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
  • (12) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
  • (13) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (14) The enzyme, when assayed as either a phospholipase A2 or lysophospholipase, exhibited nonlinear kinetics beyond 1-2 min despite low substrate conversion.
  • (15) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
  • (16) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
  • (17) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
  • (18) The enzyme was solubilized by Triton X-100 and purified approximately 480-fold by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on alanine methyl ketone-AH-Sepharose 4B.
  • (19) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
  • (20) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.

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