Pancreatic elastase is a form of elastase that is produced in the acinar cells of the pancreas, initially produced as an inactive zymogen and later activated...

exist for elastase: The four "pancreatic elastases", chymotrypsin, and neutrophil elastase are serine proteases. The "macrophage elastase" is a matrix...

collect pancreatic secretions. The fecal elastase test is a less cumbersome test that has replaced the 72-hour fecal fat test; in the fecal elastase test...

of pancreatic function in clinical assays. Fecal elastase is a medical test that measures how well the pancreas is functioning. The fecal elastase test...

Pancreatic elastase II (EC 3.4.21.71, pancreatic elastase 2) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction Preferential cleavage:...

states. In chronic pancreatitis, the fecal pancreatic elastase-1 (FPE-1) test is a marker of exocrine pancreatic function. Additional tests that may be useful...

digestive enzymes, including trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, elastase, carboxypeptidase, pancreatic lipase, nucleases and amylase. The pancreas is located in...

Shimoda K, Takiguchi Y (Jul 1987). "Characterization of pancreatic elastase II cDNAs: two elastase II mRNAs are expressed in human pancreas". DNA. 6 (2):...

amino acid group from a protein Several elastases that degrade the protein elastin and some other proteins Pancreatic lipase that degrades triglycerides into...

Elaszym may refer to one of two enzymes: Pancreatic elastase Neutrophil elastase This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elaszym...

pancreatic elastase 1. However unlike other elastases, pancreatic elastase 1 is not expressed in the pancreas. Hence this enzyme has been renamed as elastase-1...

Order Name; Designation in the laboratory; Laboratory) Pancreatic elastase;Feces-Pancreatic elastase;Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory; Adenovirus DNA PCR;Adenovirus...

Shimoda K, Takiguchi Y (April 1987). "Characterization of pancreatic elastase II cDNAs: two elastase II mRNAs are expressed in human pancreas". DNA. 6 (2):...

steatorrhoea is rarely performed nowadays. Low fecal pancreatic elastase is indicative of pancreatic insufficiency. Chymotrypsin and pancreolauryl can be...

Takiguchi Y (Feb 1988). "Identification of a novel class of elastase isozyme, human pancreatic elastase III, by cDNA and genomic gene cloning". J Biol Chem....

Y (1996). "Crystal structure of an elastase-specific inhibitor elafin complexed with porcine pancreatic elastase determined at 1.9 A resolution". Biochemistry...

(13)C-mixed triglycerides test and fecal elastase, to detect possible fat maldigestion due to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, or various specific tests...

and characterization of a nonelastolytic enzyme, protease E. resembling elastase". Biochemistry. 14 (4): 722–30. doi:10.1021/bi00675a012. PMID 234742. Shen...

Ladner RC (1978). "The atomic structure of crystalline porcine pancreatic elastase at 2.5Å resolution: comparison with the structure of alpha-chymotrypsin"...

the highest inhibition of proteolytic enzymes trypsin and porcine pancreatic elastase. Research suggests that the biosynthesis of both atranorin and physodic...

acyl-enzyme complex formed between beta-casomorphin-7 and porcine pancreatic elastase". Nat. Struct. Biol. 4 (6): 456–62. doi:10.1038/nsb0697-456. PMID 9187653...

known as pancreatogenic diabetes) is diabetes that comes secondary to pancreatic diseases, involving the exocrine and digestive functions of the pancreas...

excluded with a normal chloride in sweat test but faecal elastase as a marker of pancreatic function will be reduced. The variation, intermittent nature...

malabsorption due to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency can be confirmed by also checking a fecal elastase level, with low levels...

Leukocyte elastase inhibitor (LEI) also known as serpin B1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB1 gene. It is a member of the clade B serpins...

system, inhibit neutrophil elastase strongly while ecotin from the plant pathogen Pantoea citrea inhibits neutrophil elastase 1000-fold less potently. Ecotins...

elastase and porcine pancreatic elastase toward peptide 4-nitroanilides containing model desmosine residues. Evidence that human leukocyte elastase is...

and named it elastase. This is now known to be only one of a class of peptidases capable of cleaving elastin, and the pancreatic elastase Banga and Baló...

chymotrypsin EC 3.4.4.7: Now covered by EC 3.4.21.36, pancreatic elastase and EC 3.4.21.37, leukocyte elastase EC 3.4.4.8: Now EC 3.4.21.9, enteropeptidase EC...

Chymotrypsin C, also known as caldecrin or elastase 4, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CTRC gene. Chymotrypsin C is a member of the peptidase...