The enzyme is made in two places. First, salivary glands in your mouth make salivary amylase, which begins the digestive process by breaking down starch when you chew your food, converting it into maltose, a smaller carbohydrate.he main source of lipase in your digestive tract is your pancreas, which makes pancreatic lipase that acts in your small intestine. First, bile made in your liver and released into your intestine converts dietary fat into small fatty globules.
In the context of blood work, PLT refers to the platelet count. Platelets are the cells that cause blood clotting and control bleeding. The normal range of platelets for adults is 3.5 to 10.5 billion cells per liter of blood, according to the Mayo Clinic. Continue Reading.
Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT) Test. The activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) tests are very similar in nature and are used to test the amount of time taken by blood to clot in a patient being treated with blood-thinning medicines, especially heparin.he APTT test is also performed to detect the possible cause of unusual bleeding or bruising, to screen the deficiency of some blood clotting factor leading to bleeding disorders like hemophilia, to ascertain the blood clotting time before surgery, and to determine the most effective dose of medications like heparin.