How HIV Destroys Immune Cells During HIV infection, CD4 T cells in lymphoid tissues initiate a highly inflammatory form of cell death that helps cripple the immune system. By Dan Cossins | December 19, 2013
Confidence votes 3.9K. Digestion of starch and other carbohydrates begins in the mouth with an enzyme called salivary amylase. Lisa Lynn.
Background. Amylase is a digestive enzyme that normally acts extracellularly to cleave starch into smaller carbohydrate groups and, finally, into monosaccharides, by hydrolysis of internal alpha-1,4-glycoside bonds, which results in the production of maltose and oligosaccharides.