Natural Proteinase Inhibitors

Natural Proteinase Inhibitors focuses on natural inhibitors for proteolytic enzymes, which occur in plants and animals. It presents the theoretical and practical importance of the natural proteinase inhibitors of man and animal organisms.
Organized into four chapters, this book starts with an overview of inhibitors for peptide and peptdohydrolases. This text then explores the important enzyme called kallikreins, which are found in the pancreas, the intestinal wall, the plasma, the submandibular gland, and the urine. Other chapters examine the various plant inhibitors, which are present in soybean, lima beans, potatoes, grains, and beetroots. This book discusses as well the inhibition of proteolytic enzymes by substances from body tissues. The final chapter deals with the prevention of uncontrolled liberation of kinins by proteinases, which is of great significance because the kinins are involved in the occurrence of pathological processes such as inflammation.
Biologists and graduate students will find this book extremely useful.

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Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the German Edition
Introduction
Abbreviations
Inhibitor Specificity, Determination Methods, and Definition of the Unit of Inhibiting Capacity
Specificity of the Naturally Occurring Proteinase Inhibitors
Determination Methods and Definition of the Unit of Inhibitor Activity
Plant Inhibitors
Leguminosae: Inhibitors from Soybeans (SbI) (Glycine max., Soja max., Glycine hispida, Glycine soja)
Leguminosae: Inhibitors from Lima Beans (Phaseolus lunatus)
Other Inhibitors from Leguminosae
Solanaceae: Inhibitors from Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)
Inhibitors from Gramineae
Chenopodiaceae: Inhibitor from Beet (Beta vulgaris)
Inhibitors from Microorganisms
Action of Plant Proteinase Inhibitors in the Animal Organism
Physiological Importance of the Plant Inhibitors
Inhibitors from Animal and Human Organisms
Inhibitors from Ascaris lumbricoides suum
Inhibitors from Egg White
Inhibitor from Colostrum and Milk
Inhibitors from Blood Serum
Inhibitor from Human Urine
The Polyvalent Inhibitor from Bovine Organs
Human and Mammal Pancreas Inhibitor
Inhibitor from Submandibular Glands of Canidae and Felidae
Inhibitor from Seminal Vesicles and Semen of Mammals
Inhibitor from the Mucous Membrane of the Respiratory Passages
Inhibitor from Skin
Other Proteinase Inhibitors from Various Organs of Humans and Other Mammals
Therapeutic Possibilities of Proteinase Inhibitors
Fate of Bovine Inhibitor in the Organism
Treatment of Shock
Control of the Clotting of Blood
Treatment of Pancreatitis
Concluding Remarks
References
Subject Index