Glucosidase is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Glucosidase meaning
Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides
Using Glucosidase
- The main meaning on this page is: Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides
Context around Glucosidase
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glucosidase
- In this selection, "glucosidase" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alpha, biguanides, inhibitors, activity and inhibitor stand out and add context to how "glucosidase" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include homogenates alpha glucosidase activity increases and of alpha glucosidase is located. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glucosidase" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glucosidase
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Some forms of this respond to treatment with a glucosidase inhibitor, which slows starch digestion. (15 words)
Depending on the time after feeding, greater than 25% of the total midgut activity of alpha-glucosidase is located in the anterior midgut. (23 words)
At present, there are several classes of oral hypoglycemic drugs that exert antidiabetic effects through different mechanisms, namely sulfonylureas, biguanides, glucosidase inhibitors, thiazolidinediones, and non-sulfonylureas secretagogues. (27 words)
In whole midgut homogenates, alpha-glucosidase activity increases slowly up to 18 hours after the blood meal, then rises rapidly to a maximum at 30 hours after the blood meal, whereas the subsequent decline in activity is less predictable. (39 words)
At present, there are several classes of oral hypoglycemic drugs that exert antidiabetic effects through different mechanisms, namely sulfonylureas, biguanides, glucosidase inhibitors, thiazolidinediones, and non-sulfonylureas secretagogues. (27 words)
Depending on the time after feeding, greater than 25% of the total midgut activity of alpha-glucosidase is located in the anterior midgut. (23 words)
Example sentences (4)
At present, there are several classes of oral hypoglycemic drugs that exert antidiabetic effects through different mechanisms, namely sulfonylureas, biguanides, glucosidase inhibitors, thiazolidinediones, and non-sulfonylureas secretagogues.
Depending on the time after feeding, greater than 25% of the total midgut activity of alpha-glucosidase is located in the anterior midgut.
In whole midgut homogenates, alpha-glucosidase activity increases slowly up to 18 hours after the blood meal, then rises rapidly to a maximum at 30 hours after the blood meal, whereas the subsequent decline in activity is less predictable.
Some forms of this respond to treatment with a glucosidase inhibitor, which slows starch digestion.