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Trypsin  n.  (physiol.) A proteolytic enzyme present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.






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"Trypsin" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed into the first portion of the small intestine, called the duodenum. Here it meets with the pancreatic juice, which like the gastric juice attacks proteids, but even more energetically, and only in an alkaline media. The proteolitic ferment is called trypsin. The pancreatic, the most important of the digestive fluids, contains other ferments; one called amylopsin, takes up the digestion of any remaining or imperfectly converted starch left from the salivary digestion. Amylopsin is much more powerful ...
— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan

... adequate tinctorial differences by themselves are to settle the chemical identity of a granulation, is at once evident on consideration of the granules of other organs. No one surely would assert, that a liver, muscle, or brain cell could occasionally secrete trypsin, simply because the granules of the pancreas stain similarly and analogously to those of the cells mentioned. We would here expressly insist that we only assume a distinct character for each kind of granulation, in the strict sense of ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich



Words linked to "Trypsin" :   trypsinogen, enzyme



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