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.
Starches are acted on by the enzyme ptyalin (alpha-amylase) secreted in saliva, by hydrochloric acid (HCl) in the stomach, and by pancreatic amylase and intestinal amylase in the small intestine, which split the starches into maltose and isomaltose.