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Lactase (LCT), a part of the β-galactosidase family of enzymes, is a glycoside hydrolase involved in the hydrolysis of the disaccharide lactose into constituent galactose and glucose monomers. In hum...
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Lactase forms part of your daily diet, and plays a certain role in maintaining your health, vitality and wellbeing. ... Lactase is required to break down lactose (a primary sugar found in mammalian milk) and is produced in the small intestine, which breaks lactose into two simpler sugars.
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Lactose Intolerance; (Lactase Deficiency) ... Lactose intolerance is caused by reduced or absent activity of lactase that prevents the splitting of lactose (lactase deficiency). Lactase deficiency may occur for one of three reasons, congenital, secondary or developmental.
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In normal humans, the enzyme that does so —lactase— stops being produced when the person is between two and five years old. The undigested sugars end up in the colon, where they begin to ferment, producing gas that can cause cramping, bloating, nausea, flatulence and diarrhea.
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Laboratory Exercises Enzymology. ... Now, can you think of any other developmental stage in which a person produces lots of lactase? When else in a human's lifetime is there lots of lactose in the body? The nursing mother, of course, makes lactose to put into her milk to feed her baby.
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Lactose intolerance happens when the small intestine does not make enough of the enzyme lactase. Babies' bodies make this enzyme so they can digest milk, including breast milk. Before humans became dairy farmers, most people did not continue to drink milk, so their bodies did not make lactase after early childhood.
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All about Lactase. View complete and up to date Lactase information - part of the Drugs.com trusted medication database. ... Lactase is an enzyme. It works by helping the digestion of milk sugar.
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