What's the difference between diastatic and starch?

Diastatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two additional forms were also found: four cleft feet with central polydactyly are described as polydactylous type, and three monodactylous feet with lower-leg diastasis or tibial aplasia or both are described as diastatic type.
  • (2) Plain skull films showed a diastatic linear fracture with a maximum width of 8 mm, which expanded to 11 mm by the fourth day.
  • (3) A horizontal diastatic fracture across the vertebral body of C7 was discovered on plain x-ray films of the spine, and an extradural hematoma extending dorsally from C5 to T1 was revealed by emergency magnetic resonance imaging.
  • (4) We present the first reported case to our knowledge of diastatic rupture of the normal cecum following cardiac surgery.
  • (5) All other reported cases of diastatic rupture of the cecum are reviewed.
  • (6) Factors that could affect the size shape and diastatic activity were studied.
  • (7) Such complications as perifocal abscesses, perforation of the tumor, diastatic perforations are considered to be contraindications to a one-step reestablishment of the colonic continuity after left-side resections.
  • (8) In each case there was the further association of herniation of cerebral substance through the chronic diastatic fracture resulting in an acquired encephalocele.
  • (9) The use of Hiss medium with starch instead of Kodam medium is proposed for the determination of the diastatic activity of cholera and NAG vibrios.
  • (10) Prepared enteric diastase spherules were investigated for stability and diastatic activity at different temperatures and pH in various buffer systems, in the presence and absence of pepsin, a gastric enzyme.
  • (11) The spherules when tested in in vitro and in situ were recorded to exhibit diastatic activity at 99 per cent potency level (based on an actually incorporated amount of diastase).
  • (12) Eudragit RS-100 based spherules were noted to be spherical and uniform in shape with an appreciable level of diastatic activity.
  • (13) The authors stress the inefficiency of cecostomy for the solution of occlusions due to neoplasms of the colon, and list the present indications of this type of temporary derivation, which include: protection of a colo-colonic anastomosis, and the solution of perforations (diastatic, traumatic) of the caecum.
  • (14) On the basis of a review of 58 recently reported cases of skull fracture, the authors conclude that the following conditions warrant consideration of early surgery: 1) a diastatic skull fracture with a width of at least 4 mm; 2) CT demonstration of a cerebral contusion beneath the fracture; 3) overlying scalp swelling; and 4) a neurological abnormality contralateral to the fracture.
  • (15) Typical findings in 15 patients with diastatic perforation of colon due to neoplasm were the preferential site of perforation in cecum and of obstruction in left colon, and the very poor prognosis with postoperative mortality of approximately 50%.
  • (16) In 19 children whose mean age was 13 months massive impact on the skull resulted in major brain damage: acute subdural hematoma, contusional bleedings, compound, diastatic or impression fractures.
  • (17) The wild diastatic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCYC 625 has been shown to be homozygous for the glucoamylase-specifying gene STA2.

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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