Salivary Amylase: Digestion and Metabolic Syndrome

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Peyrot des Gachons, Catherine ^a   Breslin, Paul A S ^a,b  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMY1 copy number variation; Glucose homeostasis; Insulin; Metabolic syndrome; Salivary amylase; Starch digestion

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE PANCREAS ISOENZYME; ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; STARCH; AMYLASE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DIGESTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; REVIEW; SALIVARY AMYLASE GENE; ANALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA;

AMYLASES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; SALIVA; STARCH;

EID: 84988372474     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-016-0794-7     Document Type: Review

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