Amylase is a digestive enzyme made primarily by the pancreas and salivary glands. Enzymes are substances made and used by the body to trigger specific chemical reactions.
Luxating patella - a knee cap problem in dogs. The patella, commonly referred to as the knee cap is usually located in the centre of the knee joint. A luxating patella is a knee cap that moves out of its normal location, as indicated by the term luxating which means out of place or dislocated.
The overall incidence of lumbosacral transitional vertebrae was 3.5%, while in 92 dogs with lumbosacral stenosis the incidence was 16.3%. Therefore dogs with lumbosacral transitional vertebrae are eight times more likely to develop lumbosacral stenosis than dogs without the anomaly.