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pepsin

[ UK /pˈɛpsɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones

How To Use pepsin In A Sentence

  • Such damage results from the low pH of stomach acids working in conjunction with the digestive enzyme pepsin.
  • Princeton began to work on the purification of the protein-splitting enzymes met with in the digestive apparatus and gradually succeeded in obtaining a number of them in crystallized form, e.g. the pepsin met with in the gastric juice and the trypsin and chymotrypsin in the pancreas. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 - Presentation Speech
  • More than that, the vaccin adopts a kind of dosage form by special process, which could overcome the destruction from gastric acidity or pepsin, thereby render the vaccin more effective and stabler.
  • In the present study we also analysed the relation between active H pylori infection and serum pepsinogen-I and pepsinogen-II concentrations.
  • Hydrochloric acid and pepsin secreted by the gastric mucosa cause the adjacent ileal mucosa of the intestine to erode and ulcerate since the normal protective mucosa is missing.
  • Many people take extra doses of naturally produced enzymes, such as lactase, pepsin and trypsin, in supplement form.
  • _Pepsin_ is the enzyme which acts upon proteids, but it is able to act only in an acid medium — a condition which is supplied by the _hydrochloric acid_. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
  • A set of two mostly [alpha] helical proteins, lysozyme and [alpha] lactalbumin, has been compared to a set of two mostly [beta] sheet proteins, [beta] lactoglobulin and pepsin.
  • The completion of the sequence depended on the use of specific proteases - trypsin, chymotrypsin, and pepsin - to produce larger fragments.
  • The digestive juices [Footnote 47: The pepsin and hydrochloric acid of the stomach, the trypsin of the pancreatic juice, and the erepsin of the intestinal juice digest proteins.] of these organs change protein into soluble forms. School and Home Cooking
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