LIVER PANCREAS
PANCREAS
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it is a hormone
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it is an enzyme
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it is secreted by the small intestine
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it turns trypsinogen into trypsin
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Detailed explanation-1: -(1) A hormone that prevents the secretion of gastric juice.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is a hormone that prevents the secretion of gastric juice. It is an enzyme that activates the enzymes of pancreatic juice.
Detailed explanation-3: -enterokinase, also called Enteropeptidase, proteolytic enzyme (q.v.), secreted from the duodenal mucosa, that changes the inactive pancreatic secretion trypsinogen into trypsin, one of the enzymes that digest proteins.
Detailed explanation-4: -Enterokinase is a protease of the intestinal brush border that specifically cleaves the acidic propeptide from trypsinogen to yield active trypsin. This cleavage initiates a cascade of proteolytic reactions leading to the activation of many pancreatic zymogens.