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. 1972 Jun;51(6):1504–1513. doi: 10.1172/JCI106947

Simultaneous study of the metabolic turnover and renal excretion of salivary amylase-125I and pancreatic amylase-131I in the baboon

William C Duane 1,2, Roger Frerichs 1,2, Michael D Levitt 1,2
PMCID: PMC292288  PMID: 5024043

Abstract

The metabolic turnover of salivary and pancreatic amylase was studied in the baboon, an animal with a serum amylase level and renal clearance of amylase similar to man. Purified amylase was electrolytically iodinated. Although iodinated and uniodinated amylase had similar gel filtration, electrophoretic, enzymatic, glycogen precipitation characteristics, the labeled enzyme was cleared less rapidly by the kidney than was the unlabeled material. However, urinary iodinated amylase which had been biologically screened by the kidney had a renal clearance and serum disappearance rate indistinguishable from unlabeled amylase and thus can serve as a tracer in metabolic turnover studies. Administration of a mixture of salivary amylase-125I and pancreatic amylase-131I made it possible to simultaneously measure the serum disappearance and renal clearance of these two isoenzymes. The metabolic clearance of both isoenzymes was extremely rapid with half-times of about 130 min. This rapid turnover of serum amylase probably accounts for the transient nature of serum amylase elevation which frequently occurs in pancreatitis. Pancreatic amylase-131I was consistently cleared more rapidly (mean clearance ratio: 1.8) by the kidney than was salivary amylase-125I. This more rapid renal clearance of pancreatic amylase may help to explain the disproportionate elevation of urinary amylase relative to serum amylase observed in pancreatitis.

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