Digestive enzymes: here below are the links to the various articles of the site that deal with the theme "digestive enzymes". First, however, a brief outline:
| DIGESTIVE ENZYMES | ENZYME | digests |
| Oral cavity (salivary glands) | Amylase | Starch |
| Lingual lipase | Triglycerides | |
| Stomach | ||
| Pepsin | Protein | |
| Gastric lipase | Triglycerides | |
| Pancreas | ||
| Amylase | Starch | |
| Lipase and colipase | Triglycerides | |
| Phospholipase | Phospholipids | |
| Trypsin | Peptides | |
| Chymotrypsin | Peptides | |
| Elastin | Elastase (connective tissue) | |
| carboxypeptidase | COOH-terminal peptide bonds | |
| Intestinal epithelium | ||
| enterokinase | Activate trypsin | |
| disaccharidase | Disaccharides | |
| sucrase | Sucrose | |
| maltase | Maltose | |
| lactase | Lactose | |
| peptidase | Peptides | |
| endopeptidase | NH2-terminal peptide bonds | |
| dipeptidase | dipeptide |
Human digestive enzymes
»Amylase, ptyalin and starch digestion
»High amylases
»Lipase
»Lipase
»Prosthetics
»Pepsina
»Trypsin and chymotrypsin
»Trypsin and chymotrypsin in faeces
»Lactases
»Pancreatin
Vegetable digestive enzymes»Bromelain »Bromelain, pineapple stem »Papain »Ficina See also: »Digestion »Herbs and digestive extracts |
