STUDIES ON THE ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF SALIVAPAROTIN-AIII. THE INFLUENCES OF THE DIGESTIVE JUICE AND THE LIVER UPON THE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF SALIVA-PAROTIN-A

Abstract

The effects of the gastric and intestinal juice and the liver upon saliva-parotin-A were studied. The biological activities of saliva-parotin-A were stable after the incubation with gastric juice. It was digested by intestinal juice without loss of the hypocalcemic activity, however, its leucocyte activity was destroyed by this treatment.
The hypocalcemic activity was also stable in the liver but the leucocyte activity was decreased slightly after the 1-hour incubation with the liver slice.