COMPOSITION TO IMPROVE DIGESTIBILITY AND UTILISATION OF NUTRIENTS

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP96/02407 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 25, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 25, 1998 PCT Filed May 31, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO96/38170 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 5, 1996The invention relates to a composition to improve digestibility and utilisation of nutrients, comprising one or more acid stable lipases and/or one or more acid stable amylases. Both the lipase and the amylase may be of fungal origin. The lipase preferably originates from Rhizopus arrhizus or Rhizopus javanicus and the amylase from Aspergillus niger. The composition is for example a pharmaceutical composition for use in the treatment of exocrine pancreas insufficiency which may be the result of or a side-effect of acquired chronic pancreatitis, alcoholism, cystic fibrosis or pancreatic carcinomas.