[The enzyme systems of the cavitary and membrane hydrolysis of foodstuffs in the ontogeny of Karakul sheep].

By means of biochemical determination of the activity of hydrolases in the digestive system, studies have been made on the enzymic spectrum in the pancreas and small intestine in postnatal life of astrakhan sheep. It was shown that to the moment of birth, animals possess the developed mechanisms of the initial and final stages of hydrolysis of proteins and lipids. At this period, carbohydrate hydrolysis system is presented only by lactase, the activity of pancreatic alpha-amylase, intestinal gamma-amylase and maltase being very low, whereas the activity of saccharides is absent at all. During further development of sheep, the activity of all digestive hydrolases gradually increases, except that of lactase which is almost absent in adult specimens. Saccharides activity was not find in the mucose of the small intestine within the whole postnatal life.