GENERAL ANATOMY
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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Amylase
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Pepsin
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Lipase
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Rennin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pepsin is a stomach enzyme that serves to digest proteins found in ingested food. Gastric chief cells secrete pepsin as an inactive zymogen called pepsinogen. Parietal cells within the stomach lining secrete hydrochloric acid that lowers the pH of the stomach. A low pH (1.5 to 2) activates pepsin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pepsins are a family of proteolytic enzymes that initiate protein digestion in the stomach.
Detailed explanation-3: -An enzyme made in the stomach that breaks down proteins in food during digestion. Stomach acid changes a protein called pepsinogen into pepsin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Protease (made in the pancreas; breaks down proteins)
Detailed explanation-5: -Pepsin is the mature active form of the zymogen (inactive protein) pepsinogen. Pepsin was first recognized in 1836 by the German physiologist Theodor Schwann. In 1929 its crystallization and protein nature were reported by American biochemist John Howard Northrop of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.