What's the difference between diastase and starch?

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).

Starch


Definition:

  • (a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
  • (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
  • (n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
  • (v. t.) To stiffen with starch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
  • (2) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
  • (3) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
  • (4) Therefore, we changed from dextran 40 to hydroxyethyl starch in 1987 for the treatment of several otoneurological disorders.
  • (5) The present experiments examined flavor differences among starches.
  • (6) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
  • (7) Agarose gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the fast and slow components obtained on starch block electrophoresis corresponded to the pre-beta and late pre-beta band respectively.
  • (8) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
  • (9) In a starch block, migration was toward the cathode at pH 8.0.
  • (10) Slowing starch digestion by inhibiting amylase activity in the intestinal lumen should improve postprandial carbohydrate tolerance in patients with diabetes mellitus.
  • (11) This study uses breath hydrogen analysis, a sensitive method for detecting the passage of starch into the colon, to determine if a potent amylase inhibitor is capable of producing carbohydrate malabsorption.
  • (12) Concentrates of amyloid substance derived from organs of 10 human patients representing a variety of clinical entities were characterized according to their amino acid compositions, their electrophoretic constituents mobile in urea-starch gel at pH 3 and their stability with respect to the binding of Congo red in the pH interval 9-12.5.
  • (13) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
  • (14) Production of milk and milk fat was not affected, but yields of CP and SNF were decreased when additional starch was fed to cows.
  • (15) The effect of two doses (3 mg and 10 mg) of the inhibitor of pancreatic alpha-amylase trestatin on the metabolism of an oral load of 75 g of starch was observed in healthy human subjects.
  • (16) These were analyzed for: tannins, trypsin inhibitors, hemagglutinins (with cow, sheep, and human erythrocytes), damaged starch, available lysine, protein quality (by the NPR method), and true digestibility.
  • (17) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
  • (18) We have examined under a variety of conditions the ability of potato starch phosphorylase to cause exchange of the ester and phosphoryl oxygens of alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (Glc-1-P).
  • (19) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
  • (20) Several experiments examined the preference of adult female rats for starch and starch-derived polysaccnarides using short- and long-term two-choice tests.

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