chymotrypsin/diarrhea

The advantages of the photometrical analysis of chymotrypsin in stool of dogs are: the short duration of procedure, the small amount of stool necessary and the simplified manner of measurement at 405 nm. The test was performed in healthy as well as in chronically pancreatic insufficient dogs and

Random fecal chymotrypsin activity and fecal alpha 1-antitrypsin (FA-1-AT) concentrations were determined in 11 children with cystic fibrosis, 5 children with Crohn's disease, 9 children with chronic aspecific diarrhea, 85 children with acute gastroenteritis, and 54 control children. Cystic fibrosis

One hundred-eighty piglets (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire), with an average initial weight of 7.4 kg weaned at 27 ± 1 days of age, were used to evaluate the effects of dietary zinc oxide-montmorillonite hybrid (ZnO-MMT) on growth performance, diarrhea, intestinal mucosal integrity, and digestive

Fecal elastase-1 estimation is an alternative fecal enzyme test for the detection of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, which, in contrast to chymotrypsin estimation, uses monoclonal antibodies against human pancreatic elastase and is thus unaffected by simultaneous pancreatic enzyme replacement

OBJECTIVE To study fecal elastase-1 (E1F) and chymotrypsin (ChT) in stools for the diagnosis of pancreatic insufficiency in pediatric practice. METHODS E1F and ChT were measured in stools of 198 children divided in 3 groups: 49 children without any digestive disease (group A), 71 children with

The mechanism by which bacterial heat-stable enterotoxins (ST I STA) cause diarrhea in humans and animals has been linked to the activation of an intestinal membrane-bound guanylate cyclase. Guanylin, a recently discovered rat intestinal peptide, is homologous in structure to ST I and can activate

In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial, we investigated the effects of the prokinetic drug cisapride in patients with cystic fibrosis and chronic recurrent distal intestinal obstruction syndrome (DIOS). After a baseline period, 17 patients (12.9 to 34.9 years; 12 boys) received, in

The case of a 55-year-old patient with Crohn's disease and chronic intermittent diarrhea as well as progressive weight loss of 20 percent of his body weight is reported. The establishment of the diagnosis was difficult at the beginning, since characteristic symptoms were missing and radiological and

For evaluation of pancreatic function testing, a peptide that releases p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) on digestion by chymotrypsin was given to clinically normal dogs and to dogs with unexplained diarrhea. Blood concentration of PABA and percentage of PABA excretion in the urine at 6 hours after oral

Stunting syndrome is an enteric disease of turkeys causing diarrhea, reduced weight gain, poor feed efficiency, and maldigestion. The etiologic agent is a newly identified, but unclassified, virus termed the stunting syndrome agent (SSA). The SSA is a pleomorphic, enveloped virus ranging from 60 to

Recent evidence indicates that toxigenic Clostridium difficile strains are a major cause of antimicrobial-associated ileocecitis in laboratory animals and pseudomembranous colitis in humans. C. difficile ATCC 9689 was cultivated in a synthetic medium to which 3% ultrafiltrated proteose peptone was

Objectives: Endoscopic pancreatic function test (ePFT) has been in use for exocrine function testing since the 1990s. In patients, short ePFT assesses acinar function, unlike the longer version for ductal function in adults. The present study summarizes

OBJECTIVE To determine the safety, target inhibition, and signals of clinical activity of tipifarnib in combination with bortezomib in patients with advanced acute leukemias. METHODS In a "3 + 3" design, patients received escalating doses of tipifarnib (days 1-14) and bortezomib (days 1, 4, 8, 11)

OBJECTIVE Does prophylactic treatment with proteolytic enzymes reduce acute toxicity of adjuvant pelvic radiotherapy? METHODS Fifty-six patients with an indication for adjuvant pelvic irradiation after curative surgery were double-blind randomized. All patients took 3 x 4 capsules study medication