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vegetable pepsin See papain.

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	Receptor-Mediated Uptake of Pepsin by Laryngeal Epithelial Cells Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...mechanistic link between exposure to pepsin and cellular changes that lead to laryngopharyngeal...Initial confocal microscopy analysis of pepsin uptake by cultured hypopharyngeal epithelial cells revealed that pepsin may be taken up by a specific process...
	EFFECT OF ACID AND PEPSIN ON GENE EXPRESSION IN LARYNGEAL FIBROBLASTS Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...that momentary low pH with or without pepsin causes in gene expression in laryngeal...media, and pH 5 media with and without pepsin. The FVF fibroblast gene expression differed...significant interaction effects for acid and pepsin were found in the FVF culture, but in...
	Laryngeal Epithelial Defenses Against Laryngopharyngeal Reflux: Investigations of E-cadherin, Carbonic Anhydrase Isoenzyme III, and Pepsin Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...relation to the presence of (intracellular) pepsin and carbonic anhydrase isoenzyme III...immunohistochemistry and Western blotting for pepsin, E-cadherin, and CAIII. These data...research study. Results: Intracellular pepsin was detected in LPR patients, but not...
	Gene encoding the group B streptococcal protein R4, its presence in clinical reference laboratory isolates & R4 protein pepsin sensitivity Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Medical Research; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...resistant to trypsin at pH8 and sensitive to pepsin at pH2. The R4 protein found predominantly...using varying conditions for the enzyme pepsin. Standard haemoglobin assay was used to examine pepsin enzymatic activity. Thirty clinical isolates...
	Effect of Pepsin on Laryngeal Stress Protein (Sep70, Sep53, and Hsp70) Response: Role in Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease Magazine article from: The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Sep70 and Sep53 and heat shock protein Hsp70) and pepsin levels in esophageal and laryngeal tissue specimens...model was used to examine the effects of low pH and pepsin (0.1 % porcine pepsin A) on stress protein levels. A laryngeal squamous...
	Proteolytic Pattern, Antigenicity, and Serum Immunoglobulin E Binding of [beta]-Lactoglobulin Hydrolysates Obtained by Pepsin and High-Pressure Treatments Magazine article from: Journal of Dairy Science; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...evaluates the use of high pressure to enhance pepsin hydrolysis of β-lactoglobulin...to enzyme digestion, particularly to pepsin, a phenomenon attributed to its unique...At pH values around 2, optimum for pepsin activity, β-LG is dissociated...
	Aspartic to serine proteinase redesigned in catalytic center of porcine pepsin. Newspaper article from: Genomics & Genetics Weekly; 12/24/2004; 700+ words ; ...redesign of the catalytic center of porcine pepsin. "In an attempt to convert an aspartic...proteinase, the catalytic residues of porcine pepsin were substituted with the catalytic triad...suggested six possible sites within porcine pepsin sequence for the introduction of the catalytic...
	Pepsin-Induced Changes in the Size and Molecular Weight Distribution of Bovine Casein During Enzymatic Hydrolysis Magazine article from: Journal of Dairy Science; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...ABSTRACT Bovine casein was digested with pepsin at pH 2.0 in a batch-stirred tank...limited hydrolysis. Key words: casein, pepsin, size-exclusion chromatography, light...fed to adults or suckling offspring, pepsin and pancreatin play the most important...
	Ya-hom inhibits histamine effects on stomach acid and pepsin. Newspaper article from: Gastroenterology Week; 11/22/2004; 699 words ; ...effects of histamine on stomach acid and pepsin. According to a study from Thailand...actions of Ya-hom on the gastric acid, pepsin, and mucus secretions were studied in...and carbachol-induced gastric acid, pepsin and soluble mucus secretions in a dose...
	The effect of chronic consumption of paraoxon on basal and pentagastrin-stimulated gastric acid and pepsin secretion in rats.(Original Article) Magazine article from: Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...consumption of paraoxon on gastric acid and pepsin secretion in N-mari rats. Materials...used as a gastric stimulator. Acid and pepsin secretions were measured by titration...differences among the three groups. Basal pepsin secretions in the paraoxon group were...

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	pepsinogen Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology pepsinogen The inactive precursor of the enzyme pepsin . Pepsinogen is secreted by the lining of the vertebrate stomach into the lumen, where it is converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid and also by the action of pepsin itself.
	gastric secretion Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition ...and lipase, the inactive precursor of pepsin (pepsinogen), intrinsic factor , mucin...the gastric mucosa, and is activated to pepsin by either gastric acid or the action of existing pepsin; it is a proteolytic enzyme. The only...