• A diastase (/ˈdaɪəsteɪz/; from Greek διάστασις, "separation") is any one of a group of enzymes that catalyses the breakdown of starch into maltose. For...
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    Periodic acid–Schiff–diastase (PAS-D, PAS diastase) stain is a periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) stain used in combination with diastase, an enzyme that breaks...
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    PAS-positive, diastase-resistant inclusions within hepatocytes. Unlike glycogen and other mucins which are diastase sensitive (i.e., diastase treatment disables...
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    is often used as a counterstain. • PAS diastase stain (PAS-D) is PAS stain used in combination with diastase, an enzyme that breaks down glycogen. •...
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    Takadiastase is a form of diastase which results from the growth, development, and nutrition of a distinct microscopic fungus known as Aspergillus oryzae...
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    1795 – 12 May 1871) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Payen was born in Paris. He began studying...
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    identified. French chemist Anselme Payen was the first to discover an enzyme, diastase, in 1833. A few decades later, when studying the fermentation of sugar...
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    enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of starch. Takamine developed his diastase from koji, a fungus used in the manufacture of soy sauce and miso. Its...
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    "Mémoire sur la diastase, les principaux produits de ses réactions et leurs applications aux arts industriels" [Memoir on diastase, the principal products...
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    über Acetonämie, Glycerin-Behandlung des Diabetes und Einspritzungen von Diastase in’s Blut bei dieser Krankheit., Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medicin...
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    "Does potentized HgCl2 (mercurius corrosivus) affect the activity of diastase and amylase?". Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 12 (4):...
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  • also reverse transcriptase. The -ase suffix is a libfix derived from "diastase", the first recognized enzyme. Its usage in subsequently discovered enzymes...
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    ISBN 978-94-009-5717-6. products include malt extracts (powders and syrups), diastase, beer, whisky, ... and malt vinegar. "International Starch: Production...
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    Digestive biscuits are prepared in such a manner that they may contain diastase, the nitrogenous transforming matter of malt; but whatever quantity of...
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    hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)[citation needed] and reduces enzyme (e.g. diastase) activity. Heat also darkens the honey, and affects taste and fragrance...
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    beginning of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first enzyme, diastase (now called amylase), in 1833 by Anselme Payen, while others considered...
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    considered by Mouriès an active principal or ferment similar in action to diastase, came from the cereal layer of rectangular cells that millers considered...
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    PMID 9540816. Henri, Victor (1903). Lois Générales de l'Action des Diastases. Paris: Hermann. "Victor Henri". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 24 May 2011. Michaelis...
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    inclusions are coated with a glycoprotein that stains PAS-positive with diastase resistance and may act as a virulence factor that protects the bacteria...
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    beginning of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first enzyme, diastase (today called amylase), in 1833 by Anselme Payen, while others considered...
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    stain positive for von kossa (calcium), Prussian Blue (iron), and PAS diastase stain. University of Chicago; Emerging Infections Who Named It? M-G bodies...
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    which they called diastase at the time. In 1880, H.T. Brown discovered mucosal maltase activity and differentiated it from diastase, now called amylase...
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  • the product family.[citation needed] Three years later, Phadebas Honey Diastase Test was launched resulting in totally eight products in the Phadebas portfolio...
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  • 1833 French chemist Anselme Payen was the first to discover an enzyme, diastase. In 1834, François Mothes and Joseph Dublanc created a method to produce...
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    (bright red, small, circular). PAS diastase stain Histoplasma. PAS diastase stain. Histoplasma in a granuloma. PAS diastase stain. Histoplasma in a granuloma...
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    PAS diastase showing the fungus Histoplasma....
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  • kill yeast. The remaining enzymes found in Candex: amylase, glucoamylase, diastase, and invertase are involved in basic carbohydrate and sugar metabolic pathways...
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  • + (mar)athon). -ase, used in chemistry for enzymes, is abstracted from diastase, where -ασις is not a morpheme at all in Greek. -on for elementary particles...
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    whole grains of other cereals and which has been: saccharified by the diastase of malt contained therein, with or without other natural enzymes; fermented...
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    carcinomas are distinguished form ICCB by having open spaces that are PAS diastase stain-positive and by the presence of tumor cells which express cKit but...
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