Responses of digestive enzymes of tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) to dietary cornstarch changes and metabolic inferences

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 857-862

  Corrêa, Cristina Ferro ^a   de Aguiar, Lúcia Helena ^a   Lundstedt, Lícia Maria ^a   Moraes, Gilberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Colossoma macropomum; Cornstarch; Digestive enzymes; Fish metabolism; Fish nutrition; Freshwater fish; Tambaqui

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEINASE; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; AMYLASE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; STARCH; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRYPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FISH; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

COLOSSOMA MACROPOMUM; COLOSSOMA MARCOPOMUM;

EID: 34249793235     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.12.045     Document Type: Article

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