ATC Group: A09AA Diastase

The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Position of A09AA in the ATC hierarchy

Level Code Title
1 A Alimentary tract and metabolism
2 A09 Digestives, incl. enzymes
3 A09A Digestives, incl. enzymes
4 A09AA Diastase

Group A09AA contents

Code Title
A09AA01 Enzyme preparations
A09AA02 Multienzymes (lipase, protease etc.)
A09AA03 Pepsin
A09AA04 Tilactase

Active ingredients in A09AA

Active Ingredient Description
Pancreatin

Pancreatin when reaching the small intestine disintegrates (at pH>5.5) to release enzymes with lipolytic, amylolytic and proteolytic activity to ensure the digestion of fats, starches and proteins. The products of pancreatic digestion are then either absorbed directly, or following further hydrolysis by intestinal enzymes.

Protease

Protease is an trypsin that catalyzes (increases the rate of) proteolysis, the breakdown of proteins into smaller polypeptides or single amino acids. They do this by cleaving the peptide bonds within proteins by hydrolysis, a reaction where water breaks bonds.

Serrapeptase

Serrapeptase suppresses fibrinolytic activity and increased vascular permeability, suppresses edema of inflammation, strongly hydrolyzes bradykinin and cleaves fibrin and fibrinogen without affecting proteins.

Tilactase

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