date:Sep 29, 2012
estive system.
Led by Dr Mario Pinto of Purdue University, USA, the research team explained that the new knowledge could lead to food and supplement based solutions to help the control of blood glucose for people with diabetes or are prone to obesity.
We wanted to determine whether we could control the release of glucose when starch is broken down in the body, said Pinto, whose work included characterising each of the four enzymes.
Selectively inhibiting the enzymes offers the possibility of